We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.
Weapons of war have no place on our streets.
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.
Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
We know we can’t stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.
The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I’m going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.
America is number one in wind power.
Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I’ve proposed, I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women.
ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us. And they can hurt our people and our families.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.
We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.