If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to o….

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for t….

These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the gr….

When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point..

When friends are in trouble, America Helps..

It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakne….

One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our ….

I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the….

We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come..

Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going….

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us.".

Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble….

Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here..

I'd like to help struggling homeowners who can't pay their mortgages, I'd like to invest in our crumbling infrastructure, I'd like to reform the tax ….

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money th….

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades..

Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate an….

If we don’t uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time, that will make us less safe and that will be a recruitment tool for organizations….

I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long a….

Everything we've done has been designed to make sure that we address that number one priority. That's what the sanctions regime was all about. That's….