Barack Obama
[My grandmother] is a typical white person.Collection: Grandmother
The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong.Collection: Strong
I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.Collection: Strong
The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.Collection: Cyber Attacks
If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.Collection: Government
We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'Collection: Asks
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.Collection: Change
The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.Collection: Jobs
Military surge in Afghanistan to eliminate the Taliban.Collection: Military
There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.Collection: Thinking
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no returnCollection: Use
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.Collection: Religion
Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.Collection: Sports
Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition.Collection: Eye
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.Collection: Believe
Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share the blessings we enjoy and to advance the cause of peace in all corners of our world.Collection: Blessing
Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Love
The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.Collection: Responsibility
The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades.Collection: Together
I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about.Collection: Feels
True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.Collection: Leadership
We rise and fall as one people, one nation.Collection: Fall
There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.Collection: Keys
You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.Collection: Horse
I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.Collection: Believe
We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.Collection: Commitment
I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God.Collection: Children
And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.Collection: Lying
I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.Collection: Country
Never give up on your dreams.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Evil
I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.Collection: Thinking
Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.Collection: Stupid
It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.Collection: Government
I don't believe people should to be able to own guns.Collection: Believe
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracyCollection: Money
It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.Collection: Country
Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.Collection: Passion
Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.Collection: Leadership
We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America - a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America - that values the service of every patriot.Collection: Believe
All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me.Collection: America
Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.Collection: Blow
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!Collection: Running
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.Collection: Patience
I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.Collection: Thinking
Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.Collection: Jobs
We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want.Collection: Powerful
It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands.Collection: Mean