The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring. Speeches like this are fun, actually doing the work is hard.

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.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.