I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.