Over the last several days, we have heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree.

It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.