We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose.

I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.