05/08/2013
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"President Obama's election informed the world a whole lot about the American people and about the potential that exists here in America."
"These are solvable problems, but it's not a matter of us passively waiting for somebody else to solve it."
"The stakes of U.S. elections... have lots of consequences for domestic policy in the United States, but they also have consequences for the way the United States is viewed around the world."
"That's what's at stake this year."