If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real.

It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms.