Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.