This country really got started by a bunch of volunteers.

God bless you and all who serve, and thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Service to others is something everyone can do and something everyone should do.

AmeriCorps is America at its best, people rolling up their sleeves and assuming responsibility to make our country better.

Today I'll sign a proclamation designating next week as National Gang Violence Prevention Week.

We must keep doing everything we can to reach those children.

It'll punish hardened young criminals with stronger penalties.

Too many of them are growing up in fear.

We must respect our young people enough to give them a positive choice for the future.

All these things will help us make this time a year and a season of renewal.

It is past time to end the violence.

It is about trying to save a generation of children and to secure the future life of a country.

Our first, best hope is in the common cause of those around us.

The power to change America is within ourselves.

Where there is no vision, people perish.

I think we're doing a pretty good job of moving forward but not nearly a good enough job of coming together.

It is important to the national interest that funds previously made available from the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to meet the urgent and unexpected needs of Haitian migrants be made available also for the urgent and…

To amend the Commemorative Works Act, and for other purposes