 With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability. |
| America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. |
| The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. |
| This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. |
| The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them. |
| Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. |
| Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. |
| I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House. |
| We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. |
| My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks. |
| Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. |
| Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. |
| We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. |
| I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. |
| I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. |
| I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. |
| The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam. |
| A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' |
| When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. |
| It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. |
