Barack Obama

I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.

America does not presume to know what is best for everyone

ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

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.

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

I don't believe people should to be able to own guns.

The pain I felt was my father's pain.

The silence killed your faith.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.