The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

We could do so much if we concentrated on the business community and created jobs. If we make this our focus, a stronger economy and politics will follow.