What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.

Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the risk of selling out our democracy to the highest bidder. And it leaves everyone else rightly suspicious that the system in Washington is rigged against them - that our elected representatives aren't looking out for the interests of most Americans.

In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy.

If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy.