I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack ObamaWe have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack ObamaOver the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
Barack ObamaWe are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.
Barack ObamaI've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I've got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won't. Where congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need.
Barack ObamaLet's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was only a couple percentage points, and we could make sure that hiring barriers and educational barriers had been leveled down, and unemployment among African Americans right now instead of being double was only 10 percent higher than white unemployment - if we got to that point , America as a whole would be a lot richer.
Barack Obama