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Opponents of health reform warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine or government-run health care with long lines and rationed care. That’s not true either. I don’t believe that government can or should run health care. But I also don’t think insurance companies should have free reign to do as they please.
BARACK OBAMA, weekly address, Jul. 18, 2009
Discrimination cannot stand -- not on account of color or gender; how you worship or who you love. Prejudice has no place in the United States of America.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jul. 17, 2009
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
BARACK OBAMA, speech to joint session of Congress, sep. 9, 2009
If we want this country to succeed in the 21st century, we've got to lay a new foundation for lasting prosperity.
BARACK OBAMA, town hall meeting, Aug. 15, 2009
Now as we begin to put an end to this recession, we have to consider what comes next -- because we can't afford to return to an economy based on inflated profits and maxed out credit cards; an economy where we depend on dirty and outdated sources of energy; an economy where we're burdened by soaring health care costs that serve only the special interests. This won't create sustainable growth, it won't shrink our deficit, and it won't create jobs.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Aug. 7, 2009
It's not the powerful weapons that make our military the strongest in the world. It's not the sophisticated systems that make us the most advanced. The true strength of our military lies in the spirit and skill of our men and women in uniform.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Aug. 17, 2009
I have no interest in putting insurance companies out of business. They provide a legitimate service, and employ a lot of our friends and neighbors. I just want to hold them accountable.
BARACK OBAMA, speech to joint session of Congress, sep. 9, 2009
Every single one of you has something that you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.
BARACK OBAMA, National Address to America's Schoolchildren, Sep. 8, 2009
Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
BARACK OBAMA, National Address to America's Schoolchildren, Sep. 8, 2009
We cannot build the 21st-century military we need, and maintain the fiscal responsibility that America demands, unless we fundamentally reform the way our defense establishment does business. It's a simple fact. Every dollar wasted in our defense budget is a dollar we can't spend to care for our troops or protect America or prepare for the future. You've heard the stories: the indefensible no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billions and make contractors rich; the special interests and their exotic projects that are years behind schedule and billions over budget; the entrenched lobbyists pushing weapons that even our military says it doesn't want. The impulse in Washington to protect jobs back home building things we don't need has a cost that we can't afford.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Aug. 17, 2009
Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and that then allows you to learn something new.
BARACK OBAMA, National Address to America's Schoolchildren, Sep. 8, 2009
When it comes to education, we got to get past this whole paradigm, this outdated notion that somehow it's just money; or somehow it's just reform, but no money -- and embrace what Dr. King called the "both-and" philosophy. We need more money and we need more reform.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jul. 17, 2009
I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans; a city like America itself, where the world -- the world's races and religions and nationalities come together and reach for the dream that brought them here.
BARACK OBAMA, remarks on the South Lawn, Sep. 16, 2009
It's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.
BARACK OBAMA, Late Night With David Letterman, Sep. 21, 2009
Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.
BARACK OBAMA, remarks on the South Lawn, Sep. 16, 2009
It is no secret that issues of great concern to gays and lesbians are ones that raise a great deal of emotion in this country. And it's no secret that progress has been incredibly difficult -- we can see that with the time and dedication it took to pass hate crimes legislation. But these issues also go to the heart of who we are as a people. Are we a nation that can transcend old attitudes and worn divides? Can we embrace our differences and look to the hopes and dreams that we share? Will we uphold the ideals on which this nation was founded: that all of us are equal, that all of us deserve the same opportunity to live our lives freely and pursue our chance at happiness? I believe we can; I believe we will.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Oct. 10, 2009
When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy [Pelosi] is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else’s mess –- we don’t want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. (Applause.) Why don’t you grab a mop, why don’t you help clean up. (Applause.) You're not mopping fast enough. (Laughter.) That's a socialist mop. (Laughter and applause.) Grab a mop –- let’s get to work.
BARACK OBAMA, speech at DNC fundraising reception, Oct. 15, 2009
None of us wants to be defined by just one part of what makes us whole.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Oct. 10, 2009
I want everybody to know we believe in a strong and loyal opposition. I believe in a two-party system where ideas are tested and assumptions are challenged -- because that’s how we can move this country forward. But what I reject is when some folks decide to sit on the sidelines and root for failure on health care or on energy or on our economy. What I reject is when some folks say we should go back to the past policies when it was those very same policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
BARACK OBAMA, speech at DNC fundraising reception, Oct. 15, 2009
We're a nation that guarantees the freedom to worship as one chooses. And instead of claiming God for our side, we remember Lincoln’s words, and always pray to be on the side of God.
BARACK OBAMA, remarks at memorial service at Fort Hood, Nov. 10, 2009
Ultimately, I cannot guarantee that we will find the treatments and cures we seek. No President can promise that. But I can promise that we will seek them -- actively, responsibly, and with the urgency required to make up for lost ground. Not just by opening up this new frontier of research today, but by supporting promising research of all kinds, including groundbreaking work to convert ordinary human cells into ones that resemble embryonic stem cells.
BARACK OBAMA, remarks at signing of Stem Cell Executive Order and Scientific Integrity Presidential Memorandum, March 9, 2009
To those of you who mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. I love my daughters more than anything in the world, and I cannot imagine losing them. I can't imagine losing a sister or brother or parent at war. The grief so many of you carry in your hearts is a grief I cannot fully know. This day is about you, and the fallen heroes that you loved.
BARACK OBAMA, remarks by the President at a Memorial Day service, May 30, 2011
Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us -- on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Oct. 10, 2009
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