America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.

I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.

These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.

The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.

We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.