If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.

Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people...

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.