I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.

The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

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