Barack Obama
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.Collection: Responsible Business
Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.Collection: Three
And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, "I am an American." That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for.Collection: Children
Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.Collection: Muslim Faith
I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room.Collection: Tea
Who is Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the Planet Earth. Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president. If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome.Collection: Running
Yesterday, John McCain actually said that if he's president that he'll take on, and I quote, 'the old boys network in Washington.' Now I'm not making this up. This is somebody who's been in Congress for twenty-six years, who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign. And now he tells us that he's the one who's gonna' to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that's called a staff meeting. Come, on!Collection: Powerful
They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'Collection: Needs
I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween.Collection: Halloween
I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party.Collection: Party
I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.Collection: Brother
After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.Collection: Jobs
We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.Collection: Country
We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.Collection: Names
When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.Collection: Years
I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.Collection: Care
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.Collection: Europe
Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.Collection: Israel
You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.Collection: Worry
But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.Collection: Country
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.Collection: Income
I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.Collection: Running
I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.Collection: People
Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense.Collection: Responsibility
Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.Collection: Reading
I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.Collection: Records
If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.Collection: Son
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.Collection: Tattoo
I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.Collection: Disagree
I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.Collection: Real
Solyndra is a great investment in our futureCollection: Investment
Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes.Collection: People
We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.Collection: Jobs
Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.Collection: Country
We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.Collection: New Beginnings
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference.Collection: Life
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.Collection: Inspirational
We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.Collection: Country
We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.Collection: Thinking
A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.Collection: Gis
You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.Collection: Cheer
Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.Collection: Israel
As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women.Collection: Struggle
The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.Collection: Determination
I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us in this effort, because the burden of making hard choices must not be Israel’s alone.Collection: Commitment
Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.Collection: Giving Up
My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.Collection: Government
Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.Collection: Husband
I'm kind of a night owl.Collection: Night