We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

In the course of a healthy debate, we prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.

Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.