3 December 2020 Barack Obama In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama We’ve protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty there’s no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,’ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‘Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
