We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

The president [Barack Obama] understands that the country's very concerned about [terrorism] issue. And I think what you're going to hear from him is a discussion about what government's doing to ensure all of our highest priority, the protection of the American people.

I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share the blessings we enjoy and to advance the cause of peace in all corners of our world.