The government can’t solve every problem, but an enlightened government can make sure that people can work hard for their dreams and achieve them.
What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.
It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.
Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace.
The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
Let us reach for the world that ought to be – that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.
The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.
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.
Ultimately, there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.
The soldier ’s courage and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.
The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
I’m proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush’s foreign policy. That opposition hasn’t changed.
Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.
There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.
I’m LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.
Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security.
We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes – a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts.
I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.