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Today we stand with the people of Rwanda to commemorate the Rwandan genocide.

Our top priority as a nation and my top priority as President, must be doing everything we can to reignite the engine of America's growth: a rising, thriving middle class.

But we've got more to do to get the economy growing faster so that everybody who wants a job can find one.

After all, as we saw in the 1990s, nothing reduces deficits faster than a growing economy.

Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions: How do we make America a magnet for good jobs? How do we give our workers the skills they need to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?

But deficit reduction cannot come at the cost of economic growth or middle class security.

Now is not the time for Washington to impose more self-inflicted wounds on the economy.

I am instructing heads of executive departments and agencies to continue through December 31, 2013, to adhere to the policy set forth in my memoranda of December 22, 2010, and December 21, 2012.

When we tend to the sick, when we console those in pain, when we sacrifice for those in need, wherever and whenever we are there to give comfort and to guide and to love, then Christ is with us.

I hereby delegate the functions conferred upon the President by sections 404 and 406 of Public Law 112-208.

Today we can announce that the United States, with the cooperation of our international partners, successfully removed 68 kilograms of highly enriched uranium.

I believe that we can get comprehensive immigration reform passed and that is going to mean that America can continue to be a nation of laws, but also a nation of immigrants.

When he didn't like a film, he was honest; when he did, he was effusive.

I could not be prouder of the track record that we've put together over the last 4 years and 2 months.

I'm not raising money for myself, and that's good.

It is obviously a high priority of the President to take action to both enhance our energy independence and reduce the impact of carbon emissions on the environment.