Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin L… - Barack Obama

Go read a book, she would say. Then come back and tell me something you learned.

the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.

Those are the victories they won, with iron wills and hope in their hearts. That is the transformation that they wrought, with each step of their well-worn shoes. That’s the debt that I and millions of Americans owe those maids, those laborers, those porters, those secretaries; folks who could have run a company maybe if they had ever had a chance; those white students who put themselves in harm’s way, even though they didn't have; those Japanese Americans who recalled their own internment; those Jewish Americans who had survived the Holocaust; people who could have given up and given in, but kept on keeping on, knowing that “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”