I also believe we have to balance the budget.

To Major Meadows' family and friends and to the Special Operations community, I extend my heartfelt condolences.

We are in a period of change.

I will fight for it.

Times are tough enough without forcing families to pay more to keep the health care they have right now.

The answer is to raise their incomes and increase their security.

When we begin to pit one disease against another, or one group of people against another in this country, we all wind up behind.

Families do not eat and breathe and sleep political slogans; they do not.

I intend to nominate Don Lee Gevirtz as Ambassador to Fiji, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu.

But it's only half the job.

It is not the time to slow down or retreat.

Don't cut education to balance the budget.

Maldives should be suspended from the GSP program because it is not making sufficient progress in protecting basic labor rights.

Nobody has gone broke doing this.

I intend to appoint Richard D. Klausner as Director of the National Cancer Institute.

I award Maj. Richard J. Meadows the Presidential Citizens Medal for his service.

I am pleased that bipartisan leaders of Congress worked with me to produce a good bill.

The school is the only coherent, consistent direction that a lot of our kids get.