Some of the work confronting us will not be completed during my presidency. Some, like the elimination of nuclear weapons, may not be completed in my… - Barack Obama

[T]o all who serve or have served, it has been the honor of my lifetime to be your Commander-in-Chief. And we all owe you a deep debt of gratitude. But protecting our way of life, that's not just the job of our military. . . . So, just as we, as citizens, must remain vigilant against external aggression, we must guard against a weakening of the values that make us who we are.

I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country, in some sense, that if you sit at a restaurant, they're served before a Kenyan is served. If you go through customs, a white person is going to follow orders that "all people are to be treated the same". ..

Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity — of schedules and pastimes ad the weather — became their principal consolation.