Barack Obama

That's why I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans who are just as patriotic as we are.

Democracy can buckle when it gives into fear.

Take the challenge of climate change. In just eight years we've halved our dependence on foreign oil.

Politics is a battle of ideas. That's how our democracy was designed.

But laws alone won't be enough. Hearts must change.

If we're unwilling to invest in the children of immigrants, just because they don't look like us, we will diminish the prospects of our own children.

We can argue about how to best achieve these goals. But we can't be complacent about the goals themselves.

But, for all the real progress that we've made, we know it's not enough.

Our democracy won't work without a sense that everyone has economic opportunity.

Only if our politics better reflects the decency of our people.

It's up to all of us to make sure our government can help us meet the many challenges we still face.

America is a better, stronger place than it was when we started.

It's the conviction that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

You made me a better President, and you made me a better man.

The strength of our democracy has always rested on our ability to hear each other out.

The success and the vibrancy of our democracy depends on that kind of citizen engagement.

I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents.

Change only happens when ordinary people get involved and they get engaged and they come together to demand it.

The United States strongly condemns today's terrorist attack on checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai Governorate.

The truth of the matter is that-- that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community--

You know, I think there are a lot of factors going into an election.

The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous.

What is true is that the Russians intended to meddle and they meddled. Vladimir Putin is not on our team.

I don't want to comment on it other than just to say how heartbroken we are for the families who have been affected. These kinds of tragedies have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president.

I am pleased to announce that these experienced and committed individuals have decided to serve our country.