I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.

I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.