That's what will preserve our values and our ideals that define us as Americans".
"It's not our ideals that are out of kilter with Scotland.
When any Americans -- no matter where they live or what their party -- are denied that right simply because they can't wait for five, six, seven hours just to cast their ballot, we are betraying our ideals". "That's why, tonight, I'm announcing a non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America," Obama continued.
Nevertheless, we will not stop asserting principles that are consistent with our ideals, whether that means opposing the use of violence as a means of suppressing dissent, or supporting the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
But we will not stop asserting principles that are consistent with our ideals, whether that means opposing the use of violence as a means of suppressing dissent, or supporting the principles embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Any proposed change, however incremental, is perceived as a direct assault on our ideals, whether that's excised against teachers, schools, or administrators.
But a recognition of this legacy should reinforce our resolve, not diminish our efforts, to achieve an ideal that is within our reach, and is consistent with our best ideals.
"But as long as there are nine million children in the United States of America with no health insurance, it is a betrayal of our ideals that we hold as Americans.
His Supreme Court confirmation could become a forum for discussions that Americans never fully had, not only about torture but about challenges to our ideals that we are only beginning to glimpse.
He knew that even a self evident truth was not self executing; that blood drawn by the lash was an affront to our ideals; that blood drawn by the sword was in painful service to those same ideals.
