There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I am a war president.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.