Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We are greater than… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history … Many forms of Government have been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's something about the American spirit - inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it's the pursuit of prosperity… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Each side has legitimate aspirations - and that's part of what makes peace so hard. And the deadlock will only be broken… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share
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We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was. — Barack Obama Copy Share
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