The over-broad definitions in the bill make this takeover of state law potentially troubling.
This provision would unfairly discriminate against the most vulnerable members of our society.
Noneconomic damages are as important to victims as economic damages.
The most important title today is... the title of citizen.
Citizen service is the story of our more perfect Union.
We're going to try to extend health insurance to 5 million kids and try to at least make the first 2 years of college as available as a high...
We have succeeded in over 200 years in forming a more perfect Union.
If we could get everybody in America to serve, we'd have the happiest country on Earth.
I really dreamed that someday I could walk into a school like Nebinger Elementary and see what I saw today, two young people tutoring 5-year...
More importantly, the average AmeriCorps volunteer helps to generate another 12 part-time volunteers who come along and help.
We can promise big numbers—but we're, honest to goodness, going to promise ourselves that we will try to change the culture in these communi...
Everyone can serve, everyone can make a difference.
I will live with the stories that the young people told last night at that event for the rest of my life.
No one is too young to serve. No one is too old to serve.
Young people above all, however, have the time, the energy, and the idealism for this kind of citizen service.
I want everybody to face it.
I'm here because I want the young people out here to grow up in an America that is even greater than the America I grew up in.
I want to redefine the meaning of citizenship in America.