"I don't want to jump the gun,..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.”

“One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.”

“Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.”

“The State is our neighbors; our neighbors are the State.”

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.”

“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”

“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.”

“Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.”