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When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.
As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.
Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.
Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.
Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.
My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.
The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.
I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.
I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
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!
Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.
We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.
Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.
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.
Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.
It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.
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 will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
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.
To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.
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.
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.
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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.
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.
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.
A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.
Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.
In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
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.
We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.
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.
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.
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 don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.
Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.