It's because of you that with honor we're able to end the war in Iraq.

Thank you for volunteering.

Thank you for keeping us strong.

We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics.

Thank you for stepping up.

What we're doing is celebrating each other and celebrating this incredible Nation that we call home.

It`s time for Congress to require a universal background check for anyone trying to buy a gun.

The blame for this tragedy rests with the terrorists who carried it out.

This is really what America is about.

A disease that has touched the life of nearly every American.

If the parents or the school districts don't want it in that school, we're still going to override it and put them there anyway? That is a massive expansion of government.

This time he has stepped up. He is taking the lead. This is what a president who really is committed...

I think the problem we can sometimes get into is what kind of legislation is going to make us feel better, not which kind of legislation is going to make us safer.

He may be trying to seek a legacy by spending political capital on getting an assault weapons ban.

I think there is growing evidence that this White House is looking very closely at 2014 in a variety of ways.

He can get the background checks done. I think that is very doable this year.

This will be difficult. There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty -- not because that's true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or…

When it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now.