I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.

People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight.

I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.

The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.