For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. – Barack Obama
In the end, thats what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? – Barack Obama
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, were getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: Were making things again. – Barack Obama
The Internet didnt get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. – Barack Obama
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other peoples reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. – Germaine Greer