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.

To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.

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?

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.

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.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it.

The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant.

We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans.

You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers?

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.

There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

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