
“There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.”
Press Briefing, March 13, 2009 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Briefing-by-WH-Press-Secretary-Gibbs-3-13-09/
As quoted in Marco Rubio and Rand Paul Clash http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/11/10/marco-rubio-and-rand-paul-clash-national-security-fox-business-gop-debate (10 November 2015), by FoxNews Insider. Said during 2016 Republican Debate, Milwaukee.
2010s, 2015
“There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.”
Press Briefing, March 13, 2009 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Briefing-by-WH-Press-Secretary-Gibbs-3-13-09/
2012, Yangon University Speech (November 2012)
Context: And to protect the freedom of all the voters, those in power must accept constraints. That's what our American system is designed to do. Now, America may have the strongest military in the world, but it must submit to civilian control. I, as the President of the United States, make determinations that the military then carries out, not the other way around. As President and Commander-In-Chief, I have that responsibility because I'm accountable to the people.
“The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.”
As quoted in Quotations for Our Time (1977), by Laurence J. Peter, p. 509
1970s
“You might not believe it… but you make the world a better place when you smile.”
Variant: The world is a better place when you smile
Source: The Guardian
“The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.”
2000s, 2004, Speech to United Nations General Assembly (September 2004)
Allen B. Rosenstein (1989) " Competitiveness and Incoherent National Policy http://www.allenbrosenstein.com/pdf/competitiveness-incoherent.pdf", National Academy of Public Administration, Keynote Speech, 1989.
BuzzFlash interview (2004)
2010s, 2019, October, Statement on the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
“There can be no safer deposit on earth than the Treasury of the United States.”
Letter to Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1825) ME 19:281
Posthumous publications, On financial matters