Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.
Barack ObamaWe need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack ObamaI don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.
Barack ObamaIt is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.
Barack ObamaThe reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch.
Barack Obama