In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.
Barack ObamaWe've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.
Barack ObamaWe cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.
Barack ObamaWe need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.
Barack Obama