We Will Convey Our Deep Appreciation For

One Of The Things That You Come Pretty Early On To Understand In This Job, And You Start Figuring Out Even During The Course Of The Campaign, Is That There's Barack Obama The Person And There's Barack Obama The Symbol, Or The Office Holder, Or What People Are Seeing On Television, Or Just A Representative Of Power. And So When People Criticize Or Respond Negatively To Me, Usually They're Responding To This Character That They're Seeing On Tv Called Barack Obama, Or To The Office Of The Presidency And The White House And What That Represents.

When You Take On The Position Of President, You Are Committing Yourself To, First And Foremost, Protecting The American People. You Are Accepting An Institutional Role That Requires You To Make Hard Decisions And Hard Choices, And As A Consequence You Have To Take Your Moral Sense And Not Put It Aside.

We Are Not Entitled To Success We Have To Earn It

All Across The World, ...increasingly Dangerous Weather Patterns And Devastating Storms Are Abruptly Putting An End To The Long-running Debate Over Whether Or Not Climate Change Is Real. Not Only Is It Real, It's Here, And Its Effects Are Giving Rise To A Frighteningly New Global Phenomenon: The Man-made Natural Disaster.

We, The People, Still Believe That Every Citizen Deserves A Basic Measure Of Security And Dignity.