When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track.

With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

I've been called worse on the basketball court.

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