I’m going to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great.
Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.
As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.
We are God’s partners in matters of life and death.
Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi’a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.
Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.
We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.
What matters is how well we have loved.
So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.
Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we’re not intimidated by terrorist organisations.
What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.
When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow – everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.
We can’t change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.
People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We’re not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.
My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.
I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago ’s South Side.
We’ve come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn’t move us forward.
In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.