Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

I'm not sure that the American people are looking for a lot of speeches. I think what they're looking for is action. But one of the things that I do think is important is to be able to explain to the American people what you're doing, and why you're doing it. That is something that I think every great president has been able to do. From FDR to Lincoln to John Kennedy to Eisenhower.

The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.