The United States is firmly committed to the indefinite extension of the NPT without conditions.

They're trying to cut the crime bill we passed last year to provide 100,000 police on our streets.

It is time to move from a process where lawyers and bureaucrats write volumes of regulations to one where people work in partnership to issue sensible regulations.

We ought to listen to Melissa.

Illegal drugs go hand in hand with violence.

We want to work together productively on even the most difficult subjects.

Clear goals and cooperation would work better.

Regulatory reform must be a top priority.

Good government demands it and your full cooperation is crucial.

Kids today are somehow not getting the message.

I think we need a Government that's lean and not mean.

I direct you to change the way you measure the performance of both your agency and your frontline regulators so as to focus on results, not process and punishment.

I will continue to fight discrimination where it exists.

Excerpts from the President's speech to the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom Policy Conference

We have made the Government smaller.

I think it's important that we not forget that we have some great challenges here.

NPR is alive and well in the real White House.

I believe that he's moving in the right direction.