Barack Obama

Take some risks in your life.

Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.

The world doesn't just revolve around you.

There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition.

Maturity does not come from any one occasion - it emerges as a quality of character.

The Iranian government uses the billions of dollars it earns from its oil and gas industry to build its nuclear program and to fund terrorist groups that export its militaristic and radical ideology to Iraq and throughout the Middle East.

I wasn't happy that I couldn't be there personally.

Before I get started, Michelle, you want to say anything?

I can relate to the Chicago Bulls. They're a young team. Sometimes, they're going make a few mistakes. But I think they have got great promise.

For the very resource that has fueled our way of life over the last hundred years now threatens to destroy it if our generation does not act now and act boldly.

America simply cannot continue on this path. The need to drastically change our energy policy is no longer a debatable proposition.

In the days and months after September 11th, Americans were waiting to be called to something larger than themselves.

The transformation of the cars we drive and the fuels we use would be the most ambitious energy project in decades, with results that would last for generations to come.

It's the kind of American miracle we need today.

It's time for all of us to head back into the factories and universities; to the boardrooms and the halls of Congress so we can roll up our sleeves and find a way to get this done.

I will be that kind of President - a President who believes again in America that can.

America is a country that hasn't come easily. In our brief history, we have been tested by revolution and slavery, war and depression, and great movements for social, civil, and equal rights.

A clean, secure energy future will take another American miracle. It will require a historic effort on the scale of what we saw in those factories during World War II.

The price of our progress has always been borne by the struggle and sacrifice of our people - by leaders who have asked ordinary Americans to do extraordinary things.

Meeting the challenge posed by our oil dependence won't require us to build the massive war machine that Franklin Roosevelt called for so many years ago, but it will require the same sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility from all of…

Authorities are reportedly worried about racially motivated attacks on the candidate.

I'm not planning to nuke -- I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike.

All options would be on the table with Iran -- all of them.