independent media play an invaluable role in a resilient - in resilient and prosperous societies. Journalists are truth tellers who hold leaders accountable and keep information flowing freely. That is needed now more than ever in Hong…

Biden says that states can use some of their federal stimulus money for policing and I`m sure he sees this as a good political strategy to answer Republicans who claimed he wants to defund the police.

This shouldn`t be a red or blue issue. It`s an American issue. We`re not changing the Constitution. We`re unfortunate. We have an opportunity to come together now as Democrats and Republicans as fellow Americans to fulfill the first…

Zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate key existing laws and regulations. If you will sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully failed to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a…

This idea that the crime bill generated mass incarceration, it did not generate mass incarceration. What happened is the mass incarceration occurred by the states setting mandatory sentences.

there can`t be any meaningful gun control without the support of Congress, which Biden does not have on this issue.

But if only one comes to me, I`m not -- if this is the only thing that comes to me, I`m not signing it. It`s in tandem.

If you willfully sell a gun to someone who`s prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with tracing request from inspectors, my…

The Biden-Harris administration is committed to taking on unfair Chinese trade policies in all sectors, including textiles.

un-American, sick, and Jim Crow on steroids.

Look, the bipartisan bill from the very beginning, it was understood there’s going to have to be the second part of it. I’m not just signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest I have -- that I proposed.

I know there are some of my party who discouraged me from seeking an agreement with our Republican colleagues, who said that we should go bigger and go alone.

I think we have to, you know, turn the screws rather harder if we`re going to get Prime Minister Abiy to stop this.

Unfortunately, a Democratic stand to protect our democracy met a solid Republican wall of opposition. It was the suppression of a bill to end voter suppression, another attack on voting rights that is sadly not unprecedented.

the Biden administration has tried to put pressure on Prime Minister Abiy to lighten up on the quite brutal repression that is underway in the Tigray area.

Folks, this shouldn't be a red or blue issue. It's an American issue. We're not changing the Constitution. We're enforcing it. Be reasonable.

This is a lifelong mission of his to expand the access to the franchise, that he would do anything it would require to defend this to expand the voting rights.

Today, the department is announcing, as I just did, a major crackdown on stem the flow of guns used to commit violent crimes. We have an opportunity to come together now as Democrats and Republicans, as fellow Americans to fulfill the…

Crime is historically rises during the summer. And as we emerge from this pandemic of the country opening back up again, traditional summer -- summer spike may be more pronounced than it usually would be.

doing a lot of things that haven`t been announced publicly.

It is war crimes. I think it reeks of genocide, and there`s simply no excuse for what the Ethiopian government is doing right now.

Give yourselves freaking flexibility.

All Americans can feel the power of this day, and learn from our history.

the first that our nation will celebrate all together, as one nation

Biden called this year’s observance 'the first that our nation will celebrate all together, as one nation,'