When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.