In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities.

This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia.

Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

You know, the bowling alley doesn‘t seem to be improving my game. That‘s the one thing I have noticed.

I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.