As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.

I think, all in all, the Obama administration and what President Obama has focused on has lived up to our need to protect American interests, to live our values and assert our values, and to stand up for future generations.

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.