What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

We will keep a commitment to pluralism and not discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with no faith at all.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

We shouldn't fear a world that is more interacted.