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Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.
Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.
The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.
[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.
I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.
Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.
Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses.
When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.
I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.
Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.
I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.
What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.
We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.
Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.
John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.
As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.
Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration.
Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.
With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.
There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.
I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.
Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.
Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.
Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.
One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.
ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.
So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.
Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.
In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.
The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response
Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.
So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.
It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.
Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.
I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.
We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.