I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."