I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

I'm very pleased we got that nuclear agreement. It puts a lid on the nuclear weapons program. We have to enforce it, there have to be consequences attached to it. But that is not our only problem with Iran.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.

What happened in Flint is immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of America.