I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives.

There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you know, you're going to stay in touch with 'em, it's not the same, you know? The band kind of breaks up.

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.