Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
I mean, if you think about – if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.
For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
If you have health insurance, then you don’t have to do anything. If you’ve got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.
There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody’s presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread – and – and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.
Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.
Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.
You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
I have no more campaigns to run. I know because I won both of them.
The future is ours to win. But to get there we can’t just stand still...
We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.
Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
I’m a warrior for the middle class.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.