What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.