Barack Obama

We are going to get this done for the American people.

The most important thing you can do for yourselves and for your community and for your country is to work hard in school and to treat each other with respect and treat yourself with respect.

I don't quit. We get this stuff done.

Katrina may have swept through the city, but it did not destroy this community, and that is because of you, the people of New Orleans.

He's helped to cut red tape to put people back to work, get kids back into the schools, to get people back into their homes.

Nancy Pelosi is tough.

The main message I have for you is that that spirit that we carried into the campaign, that spirit doesn't die.

Let's acknowledge they've broken the law, they've got to pay a fine, they've got to learn English.

My Administration is committed to securing full and equal access to education and employment for blind Americans and all those with disabilities.

There will never be another like Ted Kennedy.

Middle class Americans are the ones who built this country.

Now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back. Now is not the time to offer ourselves congratulations. Now is the time to dig in and work even harder to get this done.

Latin music speaks to us in a language we can all understand: about hope and joy, sorrow and pain, friendship and love.

The military security that's provided in our ability to train Afghan forces is one element of it.

I have got one television station that... is entirely devoted to attacking my administration.

I've got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration.

I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.

And I know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement, it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize.

We cannot let burn pits and other exposures be this generation's Agent Orange.

Our gay brothers and sisters, still taunted, still attacked...

I think that we should end don't ask/don't tell. I have stated repeatedly that don't ask/don't tell makes no sense. I believe don't ask/don't tell doesn't contribute to our national security.

I think that we should end 'don't ask, don't tell.' I stated repeatedly that 'don't ask, don't tell' makes no sense. I believe 'don't ask, don't tell' doesn't contribute to our national security.

Economic justice isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a casebook. It is about how our laws affect the daily reality of people's lives.

There are basic principles that are universal; there are certain truths that are self-evident--and the United States will never waver in our efforts to stand up for the right of people everywhere to determine their own destiny.