We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.

There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place.

Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.