This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.