Nobody has a right to use violence in America to advance their own convictions over the rights of others.

Make no mistake: Anyone who brings violence against a woman trying to exercise her constitutional rights is committing an act of terror.

The double bombing at a women's health clinic in Atlanta this morning was a vile and malevolent crime.

I invited them here with three urgent goals in mind: first, to seek to curb the terrible violence and death that we saw last week; second, to get the Israelis and Palestinians talking again at the highest levels; and third, to help both parties return to the hard work of building peace through negotiations.

I think it shows a common commitment to end the violence and get the peace process back on track.

We came here to end the violence, not aggravate it.

I think it's evidence of their shared commitment to end violence, restore order, and invigorate the peace process.

The loss of life and the tragedy of the violence in the Middle East this week have been a terrible development for the Israeli and the Palestinian people.

I believe that—I think they're both concerned about the way events spun out of control, about the loss of life, the injury, the eruption of old tensions and bitterness.

I'm prepared to do everything in my power to help the Israelis and the Palestinians end the violence and begin the peace process again in earnest.

I ask both sides to end this violence, to get back to the business of peace.

I deeply regret the injuries and the loss of life we've seen in the West Bank and Gaza in the last few days.

Violence was becoming the exception, not the rule.

Drug abuse and violence pose serious threats to the health and well-being of American youth.

Let us bring peace to every child who deserves to be free from violence and full of hope.

Illegal drugs plague our communities, causing despair and illness, and, most importantly, contributing significantly to unacceptable levels of crime and violence.

The international drug trade poisons people, breeds violence, tears at the moral fabric of our society.

I have determined that the actions of significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia, and the unparalleled violence, corruption, and harm that they cause in the United States and abroad, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.