This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity.

You understand that we must stand against crimes that are meant not only to break bones, but to break spirits.

It is a great privilege to be here today as we confer the Congressional Gold Medal on a man who's spent his life breaking barriers and bridging divides across this country: Senator Edward Brooke.

The American people—and the men and women of our intelligence community as well—deserve nothing less.

He fought so hard for Medicare, for mass transit and the minimum wage, for civil rights and women's rights.

And that's what I will do in bringing all parties together. Not negotiating behind closed doors but bringing all parties together and broadcasting those negotiations on C-Span so that the American people can see what the choices are.

That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN, so that the American people can see what the choices are.

Distracted driving is a dangerous practice that has become a deadly epidemic.

Transportation safety is the Department's highest priority.

If you're going to enact a law, make tough penalties.

Tough penalties work.

I want to applaud Senator Grassley who has worked so hard in bipartisan efforts on whistleblowers over the years.

The unanimous conclusion of the participants is that distracted driving is a serious and ongoing threat to safety.

I'm proud of my own home State of Illinois. They just passed a very, very tough law on eliminating texting while driving. I think it will save injuries and lives.

If you say something often enough people start to believe it.

I am personally committed to reducing the number of injuries and fatalities caused by distracted driving.

Any kind of distraction, whether it's on trains, planes, or automobiles, is a distraction.

I think any distraction is a distraction that takes away from driving safely.