Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.

The world is less violent than it has ever been.