Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.
There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.
Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.
And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.
I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.
I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?
