I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line

My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.

If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected.