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Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.
I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.
I think it's about time! Who cares whether he is looking for votes or not! At least your country is moving forward with the times!
We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.
I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.
One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.
For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward.
The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.
A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.
To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.
I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.
Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.
You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.
If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.
To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.
If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.
We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.
I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.
I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches.
To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.
Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?
We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.
Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.
Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya.