Quote by Barack Obama (b. 1961)

• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
  Yes we can.
  It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights.
  Yes we can.
  It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
  Yes we can.

• We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.

• We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.

• We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

• We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

• America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.