Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.

When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.