To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The world is less violent than it has ever been.

One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.