These are the people that we all came here to work for.

There is no one with a deeper appreciation of this fact than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I believe the Nation is getting a Justice who will be a guardian of liberty for all Americans.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not need a seat on the Supreme Court to earn a place in our history books.

Today we come here for more than a bill signing.

He will serve our country well as Ambassador to this important ally and trading partner.

This was a very important appointment to me.

She took on the complex challenges of winning what seems now to be such a terribly simple principle, equal treatment for women and men before the law.

This was clearly not an easy fight.

I am very pleased to be naming Charles Masten, an experienced investigator with a thorough understanding of the Department of Labor, to this position.

I am pleased today to name these two experienced individuals to our team at OSTP.

This is good for America.

Can we do it? Of course we can.

For the first time in the history of this country, people who work 40 hours a week and have children in their homes will be lifted, not by a Government program but by the tax system, out of poverty.

Nothing before us that cannot be cured if we have the willingness to open our ears, lower our voices, roll up our sleeves, and make our words speak through our deeds.

We can never take the deficit down to zero.

I am equally confident that Jane Wales' experience in the foreign policy arena will be used well as our staff at OSTP continues to pursue joint science and technology ventures with other countries around the world.

We're all in this together, and everyone must do his or her part.