Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us. And they can hurt our people and our families.