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.

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.