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Human destiny will be what we make of it.
A World without Nuclear Weapons (2009)
There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side — even if you vehemently disagree.
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do. That's what I pray to do every day.
I want to be very clear here -- a politics that’s based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart.
Remarks to the Kenyan People (2015)
It’s fitting every day to pay tribute to the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States of America.
Weekly Address (2010)
I may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I don't make it, my children will.
The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.
Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower...
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace -- because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.
Remarks to the People of Africa (2015)
If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
Nobody represents America’s values better than the American people, and I believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the Cuban people.
Statement on Cuban policy (2014)
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel's identity as a Jewish state, with secure, recognized and defensible borders. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.
And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the fierce urgency of now” -- we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
Remarks to the People of Cuba (2016)
Democracy does not require uniformity. Democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
For too long, we’ve been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation.
Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)
Ultimately, it is that faith — those ideals — that are the true measure of American leadership.
Address on interventions in Libya (2011)
I believe that all nations — strong and weak alike — must adhere to standards that govern the use of force.
Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2009)
The best measure of how a country does economically in terms of development is how does it treat its women.
Young African Leaders Initiative Presidential Summit Town Hall speech (2015)