I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.