Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.

Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.