No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful.

America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.