We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.
What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we’re gonna seize it.
We’ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there’s an occupying force as opposed to a force that’s part of the community that’s protecting them and serving them.
It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they’re not undercutting competition here in the United States.
There is no doubt that thanks to the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and to rebuild it on a new foundation, we are entering into the new year with new confidence that America is coming back.
Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.
I just want to repeat that there’s nothing that we’ve proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.
And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.
It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.
Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That’s what people around the country expect.
Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
I’m willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.
One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
This is our first task-caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.
I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another’s heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.