Barack Obama

The capacity for cruelty still exists. The capacity for discrimination still exists.

I think the experience of slavery is -- is like the experience of the Holocaust. I think it's one of those things you don't forget about.

In some ways African-Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don't have a recent immigrant experience to draw on.

I think that there is a special sense for African Americans of somehow connecting up with a part of yourself that you might not have even been aware was there.

I think the way it has to be thought about, the reason it's relevant is because whether it's what's happening in Darfur or what's happening in the Congo or what's happening in too many places around the world, you know, the capacity for…

You try to explain that people were willing to degrade others because they appeared differently.

I'm reminded of the same feeling I got when I went to Buchenwald with Elie Wiesel.

We have no choice but to change the health care system, because right now it's broken for too many Americans.

The United States and the Netherlands have maintained an extraordinarily close friendship for many years now.

We think that this partnership is strong and will continue to grow.

Community colleges are an essential part of our recovery in the present and our prosperity in the future.

It will change the incentives in our health care system so that Americans can receive the best care, not the most expensive care.

Now is the time to change all that.

This place can make the future better, not just for these individuals but for America.

Time and again, when we've placed our bet for the future on education, we have prospered as a result.

I extended my personal invitation to the Prime Minister to participate in the next G-20 summit in Pittsburgh.

I want to applaud Governor Granholm for the No Worker Left Behind program.

The issue in Afghanistan is not simply an American issue; it is a worldwide issue.

The road to recovery, the road to prosperity, is going to be hard.

I'm grateful to the Prime Minister and the Dutch people for their extraordinary contribution.

I am grateful for his service and honored to nominate him to direct the critical work of the Peace Corps.

And it includes a health insurance exchange that will allow families and small businesses to compare prices and quality so they can choose the health care plan that best suits their needs.

Community colleges are an undervalued asset in our country.

I would like to see it done sooner, rather than later.

It is not contradictory.