Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country.
America is an unlikely place – a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it’s now your turn to help keep it this way.
These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.
Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it.
No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.
Become a teacher. Your country needs you.
We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela. These countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.
I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.
The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.
You don’t defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.
The soldier ’s courage and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such.
If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we’ve always been and always will be a AAA country.
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.
No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it’s been protected by our men and women in uniform – people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.