America will rise again. And hope will rise again.
I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
If there’s one thing I would like to see, it’d be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
We’re showing that there’s no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.
Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for ‘That One.’ And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t think I’d ever run for president.
If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn’t, I’m going to get your vote next time.
Libraries remind us that truth isn’t about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we’re the most religious of people, America’s innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences – a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
That is why we fight – in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
You can’t always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.
There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won’t even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though – Islam has always been a part of America’s story.
At any rate, here’s what the president has said about Christianity and the Bible:.
Obama’s response when asked to define sin: “Being out of alignment with my values.”
I’ve been to 57 states.
My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don’t just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.