I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way..

The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal A….

I don't think there's anybody who's run a campaign like [Donald Trump] successfully in modern history, not that I can think of. And, as a consequence….

There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in runn….

Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path ….

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve….

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent..

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things..

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody..

The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are s….

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference..

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level..

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government..

We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment..

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you conn….

It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as an….

Reality has a way of asserting itself..

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better await….

As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can….

We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House..

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.