There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about the dislocations brought on by globalisation. Many of those frustrations are legitimate and they need to be addressed.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.