"[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.”

“Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.”

“I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.”

“When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.”

“Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.”

“Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.”

“War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.”

“We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.”

“Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.”