Ironically, the single thing that has strengthened Iran over the last several years has been the war in Iraq. Iraq was Iran's mortal enemy. That was cleared away. And what we've seen over the last several years is Iran's influence grow. They have funded Hezbollah, they have funded Hamas, they have gone from zero centrifuges to 4,000 centrifuges to develop a nuclear weapon.

We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.

If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.