We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.
We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women’s leadership across the country.
Go back to – my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren’t. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it’s suddenly their campaign platform.
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn’t being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.
All I want to do, if you’ve already got health care, is lower your costs.
My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That’s still what drives me every single day.
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
We’ve endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would – as a parent.
I think that most Americans don’t resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.
I can’t really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they’re not protesting. They’re not making a statement. They’re stealing. When they burn down a building, they’re committing arson.
The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we’re asked to be the sheriff.
Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire – the one thing that I’m always struck by is persistence. It’s a quality that’s underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.
What we want is for people to know that you can get affordable health care and most young Americans, they’re not covered and the truth is they can get coverage all for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill.
Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.
One of the things I’ve learned about being president is that we’ll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.
I’m suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.
I don’t think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.
The challenge there is that ISIL doesn’t have an air force. So the damage done there is not against ISIL. It’s against the Syrian regime.