There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

You have to have a strong team around you [being a president].

I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.

The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it.