This kind of inequality - a level that we havenโt seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... Thatโs why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. Itโs also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.
Barack ObamaThe Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.
Barack ObamaThe bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb.
Barack ObamaWe do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.
Barack ObamaI can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.
Barack Obama