Three months is a lifetime in politics.
Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL.
No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East...
Of course, there’s been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I’m committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can’t simply cut our way to prosperity.
With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.
When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.
We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don’t write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.
Politics didn’t lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.
The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there’s no excuse for that, that’s not a statement, that’s not politics, that’s not activism, it’s just criminal behavior.
The men and women of America’s homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.
The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.
We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.
Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.
If we’re going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.
Our environment is too important to neglect and it’s time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.
Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
Heaven forbid we’ve got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn’t do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.
But I’m here to say that when we do speak out, we’re going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.
Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst – assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.