My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.
American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.
Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share.
The terror attacks have reshaped the campaign and may have given another boost to Donald Trump.
It's also wonderful to be back with my great friend and ally, Chancellor [Angela] Merkel. As I reflect back over the last eight years, I could not ask for a steadier or more reliable partner on the world stage, often through some very challenging times.
Both of our nations [America and Germany] were proud to join the Paris Climate Agreement which the world should work to implement quickly. Continued global leadership on climate in addition to increasing private investment and clean energy is gonna be critical to meeting this growing threat.
I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.
We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but also enemies like Iran and Syria. They have to have buy-in into that process.
I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.
I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.
The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.
We can't, you know, use our military to make sure the planet doesn't get warmer. And so that kind of leadership, of being able to bring people together, to apply practical commonsense solutions based on facts, based on science, based on what works you know, that's been the approach I have taken consistently as a public servant. That's the kind of style that I think we need in the presidency right now.
The American people are going to have a good choice.
Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.
This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.
What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.
One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.
To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.
We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.
We have concerns whenever we see people who have large stockpiles of weapons, or appear to be in the process of accumulating weapons and ammunition.
