• We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
  • America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.
  • The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
  • Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.
  • The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.
  • If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.
  • When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
  • You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
  • There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America.
  • Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
  • If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
  • Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.
  • Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.