Barack Obama

No young person in America should be priced out of college.

I have also determined, in accordance with provisions of section 706(3)(A) of the FRAA, that support for programs to aid Burma and Venezuela are vital to the national interests of the United States.

The issue to me... is how do you close the gap.

Let us honor their distinct heritage while reaffirming our commitment to enabling them to build a future bright with hope and opportunity for themselves, their families, and the country we love.

Our systems for maintaining the peace and our criminal justice systems generally work, except for this huge swath of the population that is incarcerated at rates that are unprecedented in world history.

Our democracy is premised on an assumption that even if somebody is not just like me, that they're a good person and a generous person.

The world drug problem is complex and dynamic.

That's one of the things I love about your characters in your novels, it's not as if it's easy for them to be good Christians, right?

Education is the key to making that future possible.

The United States remains a leader in galvanizing international efforts to cooperate in addressing the full range of negative consequences tied to the drug trade and its links to criminal enterprise.

The bottom line is that a society's values are reflected in where we put our time, our effort, our money.

One of the things that I don't get a chance to do as often as I'd like is just to have a conversation with somebody who I enjoy and I'm interested in.

Nobody in a 21st-century economy is going to be able to do what they want to do with their lives unless they've got a great education.

I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all Americans to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.

They don't look for a single silver bullet; instead they bring together local government and nonprofits and businesses and teachers and parents around a shared goal.

We go through these moments.

Great teachers see things in students that they don't even see in themselves.

That's the logical conclusion if, in fact, you think that government is the enemy.

I just can't imagine what kind of person would put themselves through something like this.

The notion that somehow we would not welcome their desire to be full-fledged parts of this community and this country and to contribute makes absolutely no sense.

A country's presence on the foregoing list is not a reflection of its government's counternarcotics efforts or level of cooperation with the United States.

I'm always trying to push a little more optimism.

The arts are what make life worthwhile.

Whenever I hear people saying that our problems would be solved without government, I always want to tell them you need to go to some other countries where there really is no government.

The challenge is that, as you talk about in your essay, fear...