A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.
When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.