The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.

I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.

I want to thank you for coming to the White House to give me an opportunity to urge you to work with these five senators and three congressmen, to work hard to get this trade promotion authority moving. The power that be, well most of the power that be, sits right here.

There's not as much money in Washington as they're used to be!

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.