I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.

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

Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.

The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.