As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.

A political consultant, when we first started thinking about Senate race, said, "You can have one funny name. You can be 'Barack Smith.' Or you can be 'Joe Obama.' But 'Barack Obama' - that's not gonna work."

And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.