Barack Obama

Our addiction to foreign oil doesn't just undermine our national security and wreak havoc on our environment.

The United States must free itself from dependence on foreign oil.

Sustainable economic growth in poor countries must be a core U.S. development policy objective.

Clearly, Africa has been and will remain a key priority for U.S. assistance.

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.

The pursuit of tough, principled, direct diplomacy has been and must again be a hallmark of effective U.S. foreign policy.

For too long, we have ceded the playing field to Hugo Chavez--a democratically elected leader who does not govern democratically.

It makes both moral and strategic sense to lift the restrictions on family visits and family cash remittances to Cuba.

We look forward to ensuring that continued United States-Brazil energy cooperation is environmentally sustainable and spreads the benefits of alternative fuels.

The current United States-Brazil relationship provides a foundation for a deeper, more comprehensive partnership between our two countries.

We will work in partnership with countries throughout the region to promote an agenda that helps advance democratic governance, opportunity, and security from the bottom up.

Administration policy toward the Americas will be guided by the simple principle that what is good for the people of the Americas is good for the United States.

The vacuum created by the lack of sustained U.S. engagement with the region has been filled, in part, by others--including Hugo Chavez, who has tried to use this opportunity to advance outmoded and anti-American ideologies.

Too often, U.S. policy toward the Americas in recent years has been negligent to our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, and disinterested in the challenges that matter to peoples' lives throughout the region.

We have been very clear and forceful in our condemnation of the genocide in Sudan.

We are diminished when genocide or ethnic cleaning is taking place and we stand idly by.

We are not at war with Islam, that we will stand with those who are willing to stand up for their future.

So I strongly believe that we should more fully explore possible modalities for humanitarian assistance that will reach the suffering people of Burma and that do not empower the military junta.

The regime must release, unconditionally, all of the nation's political prisoners, including the symbol and leader of Burma's democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi.

The administration's policy will be to help Taiwan and China resolve their differences peacefully while making clear that any unilateral change in the status quo is unacceptable.

The failure of democracy in Ukraine would deliver a blow to the democratic forces throughout the entire region, including inside Russia.

I will make clear that we will not accept 'spheres of influence' in Europe.

It has made it impossible for the United States to pursue business-as-usual with Moscow.

We can cooperate with our Russian counterparts without pretending to be personal friends and without checking our values at the door.

We will not turn a blind eye to violations of human rights and democratic practices.