I want those possibilities available to every American without regard to race or gender or income or region.

The challenge for our country is to harness those things in a way that opens opportunity for all Americans.

It clearly enables the age of possibility in America to expand to include more Americans.

I believe that more of our people will be able to live out their own dreams than ever before.

Our challenge is to figure out how to set and keep in motion all these wonderful changes and shape them in a way that makes the American dream available to everybody again.

It's literally true that there has never been a time in the history of our country or the world when there were so many different opportunities for so many different kinds of people to live out their own dreams.

The great challenge for us is how to expand opportunity to more Americans.

But we have to balance the budget in a way that reflects our most fundamental values: increasing opportunity; asking everyone to assume responsibility; strengthening our families and the economy; and recognizing the duty we owe to each other.

It's clearly the best chance in the last 4 years.

I want the 21st century to be a time when every American has the chance to live up to the fullest of his or her God-given abilities.

It is not only morally the right thing to do, it is a gold mine for us if we will turn away from those who would divide us.

Do you really want those thousands of kids out of the chance to be in the Head Start program?

We must forge a system strong enough, yet flexible enough, to make the most of the historic opportunities and the historic obligations before us.

Every child in America deserves the chance to get the high-tech know-how to unlock the promises of the 21st century.

I want to reward responsibility, not punish it; to increase opportunity, not shrink it; to strengthen our families, not weaken them.

I wish every young person in our country could go to one.

We must continually strive to create more opportunity for work for those who are willing to take the responsibility to make better lives for themselves and their families.

Saint Patrick escaped the bonds of slavery and brought his message of faith and opportunity to the Emerald Isle.