The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?

If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.