 We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. |
| What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously. |
| The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. |
| It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. |
| I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver. |
| I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. |
| Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. |
| I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. |
| As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. |
| You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime. |
