I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad….

And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't ov….

I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norm….

I'm not so out of touch that I don't see how young people interact today.It was horrific. And that's an example of something that it's not as if that….

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go..

I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of scho….

Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that….

If we win all those fights, and now let's say the income gap, and the wealth gap, and the education gap have for the most part been closed - let's sa….

Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world,….

Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff..

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their l….

If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say ….

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 witho….

When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an ….

I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals….

I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world..

In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. ….

I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who ….

One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community ….

By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them..

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and i….