The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Barack Obama Quotes