[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.
Barack ObamaUnless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
Barack ObamaExcuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness
Barack ObamaPart of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
Barack ObamaI am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].
Barack ObamaMy hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with Russia, where our values and interests align. But that the president-elect also is willing to stand up to Russia where they are deviating from our values and international norms.
Barack Obama