If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.

I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term.