Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

We as a country have to do some soul-searching.

All I want to do, if you've already got health care, is lower your costs.

Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past - none of these things have been helpful.