The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.
Education is not a privilege, it is a right!
The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.
The Republicans could mess up a two car parade.
Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.
A great democracy doesn’t make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.
Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.
Sincerity? I can fake that.
Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.
We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don’t see our own time for what it truly is – a new dawn for America.
Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.
Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
If there’s grass in the field, play ball!
Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.
What works in the real world is cooperation.
True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.