Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.
Barack ObamaFor we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
Barack ObamaToo often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.
Barack ObamaThat's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.
Barack Obama