1) On his Islamic State strategy, December 2015

“Now on our side, I think that there is a legitimate criticism of what I’ve been doing and our administration has been doing in the sense that we haven’t, you know, on a regular basis I think, described all the work that we’ve been doing for more than a year now to defeat ISIL.
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And so part of our goal here is to make sure that people are informed about all the actions that we’re taking.”