If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
The War on Drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can’t just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community.
Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.
It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.
It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care. It’s because John McCain doesn’t get it.
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts.
I’ll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.
Obama said if elected his government would “harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces”.
To restore America’s competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She’s talking like she’s Annie Oakley.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.