"Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community."

"We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine."

"Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people."

"Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it."

"It is a profound truth that the present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

"In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society."