I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, representatives choose their voters.