There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
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This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.
Barack ObamaIt's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack ObamaThis is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack ObamaCynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
Barack ObamaAll this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.
Barack ObamaIt was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.
Barack ObamaOtherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity -- of schedules and pastimes ad the weather -- became their principal consolation.
Barack ObamaAnd that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.
Barack ObamaA nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.
Barack ObamaTags: science energy national-security
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