Barack Obama
That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.Collection: Hate
I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources.Collection: Believe
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.Collection: Our Generation
With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.Collection: Country
Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.Collection: Commitment
We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.Collection: Jobs
For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.Collection: Believe
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.Collection: Memorable
This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.Collection: Memorable
We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.Collection: Memorable
He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.Collection: Memorable
I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.Collection: Believe
Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud…but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.Collection: Country
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.Collection: Unity
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.Collection: America
Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of "You know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife... wow!"Collection: Strong Women
You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.Collection: War
I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.Collection: Thinking
I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I've got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won't. Where congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need.Collection: Country
While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect.Collection: Gay
It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can.Collection: Nice
In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.Collection: Children
America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.Collection: Children
I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake.Collection: Mistake
You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.Collection: Community
You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.Collection: Made
Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.Collection: Heart
I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.Collection: Used
Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.Collection: Mind Blowing
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.Collection: Moving
A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.Collection: Appeals
I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.Collection: America
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.Collection: War
I'd like to help struggling homeowners who can't pay their mortgages, I'd like to invest in our crumbling infrastructure, I'd like to reform the tax system so multimillionaires can't pretend their earnings are capital gains and pay at the rate of 15 percent. I'd like to make public higher education free, and pay for it with a small transfer tax on all financial transactions. I'd like to do much more - a new new deal for Americans. But Republicans are blocking me at every point.Collection: Block
We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.Collection: Teacher
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.Collection: Law
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.Collection: Inspirational
Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.Collection: Country
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.Collection: Children
Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefsCollection: Religious
Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?Collection: Children
One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.Collection: Law
The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.Collection: Opportunity
No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.Collection: Trying
There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us.Collection: Eye
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.Collection: Acceptance
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.Collection: Moving
Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingnessCollection: Bridges
The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.Collection: Class