A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

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.

Only the educated are free.