The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.