Barack Obama — "I mean, I'm a pretty good golfer. I'm a pretty good basketball player. I'm a pre…"

"Hope is not blind optimism. It's not a naive faith that things will turn out for the best. It's a belief that if we work hard enough, we can make things better."

"The thing about the American people, though, is they're not stupid. They're not going to be bamboozled. And they know when they're being jerked around."

"We don’t need to be defined by our differences. We need to be defined by our common humanity."

"We are still the country of strong, resilient, optimistic Americans who are willing to work hard and to make sacrifices for a brighter future."

"America is not a Christian nation."