“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.”

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.

Yes We Can!

Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Don’t expect people to respect you for what you are “planning” to do.

Always deliver more than expected.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn’t enjoy it all when it happened.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.