If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Why can't I just eat my waffle?
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
如果人們不能相信他們的政府做它該做的事,保護他們和促進他們的共同福利——那我們就完全失敗了。
我們被警告不要向這個民族的人提供虛假的希望。但美國不呢神就是個不可能的故事,從來沒有任何希望是假的。
金錢不是唯一的答案,但它的作用非常可觀。
并不存在一個自由美國和一個保守美國的區(qū)別 - 只有團結的美利堅合眾國。