A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.

So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.