Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008..

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions..

I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the overs….

No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. ….

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would ….

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this..

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, t….

And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up - because every girl’s life matters. Every daughter deserves the same chance as our son….

The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the ….

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same r….

I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slau….

There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for….

One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them..

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater ….

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people w….

What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function a….

Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack ….

The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordin….

America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an e….

The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon..

I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately..