Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

I absolutely believe that America has a responsibility, and the privilege of helping defend freedom and promote the principles that make the world more peaceful. And those principles include human rights, human dignity, free enterprise, freedom of expression, elections.

I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the American people his - his finances, decision - important decisions about his investments, refuses to come clean on his time at Bain Capital and when he was really there, and, you know, be held accountable for the outsourcing of jobs and the off-shoring of jobs and shipping jobs overseas.

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.