Barack Obama

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And 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.

I mean, I'm a pretty good bowler, but I'm not a good enough bowler to be in the Special Olympics.

At some point, you've made enough money.

I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.

I am not a fan of the term 'Islamic extremism.' I think it lends itself to the idea that there is something inherently extreme about Islam, and that's not the case.

We don’t have a strategy yet.

I think we've been a little bit lazy, I think, in our approach to energy, and we haven't been willing to make some of the tough choices.

I mean, the truth is, is that there are whole stretches of the country where you don't grow up with a lot of interaction with people who are different from you.

The private sector is doing fine.

America is not a Christian nation.

We can't just drill our way out of the problem.

I actually believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

I think when you consider the sweep of human history, it's a pretty good bet that the arc of the moral universe does bend towards justice. But it doesn't bend on its own.

There's not a lot of evidence that it's going to work, but I'm an optimist.

You can't have a 100 percent security and also have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

We tortured some folks.

I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper.

We don’t need to be defined by our differences. We need to be defined by our common humanity.

The future belongs to the innovators, the entrepreneurs, the risk-takers, and the dreamers.

There's no such thing as a perfect policy.