We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It’s beyond reason.
We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill.
Together, we’re going to finish the job we started.
So don’t get cynical. Cynicism didn’t put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.
I’m a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I’d have to think long and hard before I let him play football.
Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.
My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.
Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.
Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.
We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.
We’re not going to have you burdening the health system.
A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.
I’ll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We’ll protect sources and methods, but we won’t use sources and methods to hide the truth.
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.
Loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what’s right, and shake up the status quo.
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.
That’s the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we’ve already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.
The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.
Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.