Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

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.

[It] has a lot of things in it that I like, but I think it's way too hard on financing things from immigrants.

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.