99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I’m going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.
The world is less violent than it has ever been.
People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You’ll have a sense of what a socialist is.
One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn’t get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran’s nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it’s been protected by our men and women in uniform – people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.
We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we’re going to hit singles.
We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted.
These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don’t surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn’t do anything about it was stunning to me.
I believe that if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.
For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.
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.
We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We’re the nation that always dared to dream. We’re the nation that dared to take risks.
Nobody’s madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it’s going to get fixed.
You want to be commander in chief, you can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it’s not politically convenient.
Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.