#mo

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. ↗

— Barack Obama

#been #benefits #couples #done #each

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. ↗

— Barack Obama

#bed #car #driving #fruit #getting

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#flowers #house #hurry #i #monaco

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. ↗

— Barack Obama

#corner #every #go #i #i think

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. ↗

— Barack Obama

#been #benefits #build #cornerstone #created

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole. ↗

— Barack Obama

#businesses #demand #economy #further #hole

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again. ↗

— Barack Obama

#again #always #america #back #basics

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #convention #everything #friends #happy

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. ↗

— Barack Obama

#come #devastate #famine #lands #leave