America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

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