This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.