Islam has always been part of America

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.