I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.

If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.

The greatest gift that Michelle and I have received over the last eight years has been the honor of serving as your President and First Lady. Together, we fought our way back from the worst recession in 80 years, and got unemployment to a nine-year low.

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.