Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

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

I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.

I do believe that Chancellor Merkel and Germany are a lynchpin in protecting the basic tenets of a liberal, market-based democratic order that has created unprecedented prosperity and security for Europe, but also for the world.

As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

When I came into office, the world was divided. Iran was resurgent. Iran is at its weakest point, economically, strategically, militarily, then since - then in many years. And we are going to continue to keep the pressure on to make sure that they do not get a nuclear weapon. That's in America's national interest and that will be the case so long as I'm president.