"For as much as government can do..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.”

“I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.”

“Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.”

“America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.”

“Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.”

“There's something about the American spirit -– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children –- not just here in the United States, but all around the world.”

“Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know”

“Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.”

“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.”