If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

I still believe in a place called Hope.