It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.

I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

My administration will be the most transparent in history