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(108,898 total)“I ask Congress to move quickly on legislation that will finally reform our outdated regulatory system. It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.”
— Barack Obama, Remarks of President Barack Obama -- Address to Joint Session of Congress
“So I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future. That's the goal that must be achieved. That is a cause that could not be more just. A…”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President on a New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, March 27, 2009
“My own American journey was paved by generations of citizens who gave meaning to those simple words -- "to form a more perfect union." I've studied the Constitution as a student, I've taught it as a teacher, I've been bound by it as a lawyer and a legislator. I took an oath to preserve, protect, and…”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President On National Security, 5-21-09
“Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural…”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President in Newton, IA, April 22, 2009
“This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence -- the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed, why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across th…”
— Barack Obama, President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, JANUARY 21, 2009
“Now, if you’re one of the 30 million Americans who don’t yet have health insurance, starting in 2014 this law will offer you an array of quality, affordable, private health insurance plans to choose from. Each state will take the lead in designing their own menu of options, and if states can come up…”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President on Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act
“Look at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one Dr. King addressed that day. We are right to savor that slow but certain progress -– progress that’s expressed itself in a million ways, large and small, across this nation every sing…”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication
“When Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament on November 27, 1895, it's not entirely clear that he could have foreseen the impact that his prizes would have. But he did know this truth: that our destinies are what we make of them, and that each of us in our own lives can do our part in order…”
— Barack Obama, Toast Remarks by the President at the 2009 Nobel Banquet, December 10, 2009
“Today, women make up half of America’s workforce. They are primary or co-breadwinners in two-thirds of our families. Their contributions are vital to the success of our economy. Today, girls like my daughters, young women like the ones at this dinner, have opportunities that my grandmother never dre…”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the 2010 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, October 05, 2010
“Because one of the things I’ve discovered is excelling -- whether it’s in school or in life -- isn’t mainly about being smarter than everybody else. That’s not really the secret to success. It’s about working harder than everybody else. So don’t avoid new challenges -- seek them out, step out of you…”
— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President in Back to School Speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 14, 2010
“We don’t need inflammatory rhetoric. We don’t need careless accusations thrown around to score political points or to advance an agenda. We need to temper our words and open our hearts -- all of us. We need what we saw in Dallas this week, as a community came together to restore order and deepen uni…”
— Barack Obama, Statement by the President on the Shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 17, 2016