Barack Obama

What’s certain is that I don’t need the stress.

Barack Obama

What’s missing is not money, but a national sense of urgency.

Barack Obama

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation – at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

Barack Obama

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

Barack Obama

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Barack Obama

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Barack Obama

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

Barack Obama

Where once I’d felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.

Barack Obama

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Barack Obama

White folks. The term itself was uncomfortable in my mouth at first; I felt like a non-native speaker tripping over a difficult phrase.

Barack Obama