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Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.
Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.
Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.
I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.
There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place.
Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.
You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.
You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.
You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.
We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.
I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal.
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.
I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.
At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.
If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.
After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.
We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.
What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.
It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.
A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.
We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.
I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.
And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.