This bill would not have affected anyone who leaves office with my Administration, but my concern is to secure good government for our country's future.
Public service is a public trust.
This bill would have begun to make former senior Federal employees unemployable in the private sector after their Govern...
It is excessive and unjustifiable also to insist... that former officials not represent any client before any senior Exe...
Fair and impartial governance is the hallmark of our constitutional democracy.
We owe all we have to our forebears who built our land and our government and gave it to us as a sacred bequest.
This is truly a wonderful occasion, the culmination of years of hard work and remarkable generosity.
The journey has not just been my own.
But anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.
We have done our best, and we pray it has been enough.
Think of how blessed we are to be Americans.