No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We want our children to live in a world without the destructive power of a warming planet. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are convinced, as some of you may be convinced, that changing the way we produce and use energy is essential to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal... — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image