Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.