Barack Obama
The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.Collection: Our World
Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.Collection: Winning
If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.Collection: Strong Women
Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.Collection: Inspirational
While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.Collection: Powerful
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.Collection: Children
Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!Collection: Hope
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.Collection: Healing
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.Collection: Memorial Day
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.Collection: Inspirational Life
We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.Collection: Believe
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.Collection: Teacher
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.Collection: Education
A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.Collection: Writing
I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.Collection: Girl
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.Collection: Government
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to youCollection: Reading
Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.Collection: Gun
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.Collection: Money
If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.Collection: Hard Work
[Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.Collection: Country
Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.Collection: Constitution
We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.Collection: Education
Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.Collection: Storm
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .Collection: Patience
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.Collection: Reading
For the world has changed, and we must change with it.Collection: World
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.Collection: Book
The future is ours to win. But to get there we can’t just stand still...Collection: Winning
Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.Collection: Character
Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.Collection: Fighting
We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can’t fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won’t move us forward.Collection: Powerful
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.Collection: Justice
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.Collection: Book
We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything’s possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.Collection: Country
We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals – opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.Collection: Strong
Unless you’re one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.Collection: Firsts
We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world – including in my own country.Collection: Country
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.Collection: Book
Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.Collection: Strong
No discrimination, that’s what we’re about as a country.Collection: Country
We are at a time in our country’s history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.Collection: Country
Our environment is too important to neglect and it’s time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.Collection: Real
Africa doesn’t need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.Collection: Strong
Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it.Collection: Country
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
I think that the important point is we’ve got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.Collection: Country
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: Book
I can’t really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.Collection: Country