I think that there is a bipartisan consensus that's incorrect that we should have the whole world be in NATO. For example, if we had Ukraine and Georgia in NATO - and this is something McCain and the other neocons have advocated for - we would be at war now because Russia has invaded both of them.

As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.

Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.