But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.

Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.