For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe.