The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.

You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.

The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

Don't let your failures define you.