Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.