Barack Obama actually said...

Our democracy is not going to function well when only half or a third of eligible voters are participating.

Those are the kinds of things that I'll be talking about at the commencement.

The key to all of this, though, is going to be, 'What can we do to get all colleges, everywhere, to reduce their overall costs?'

The national emergency declared on May 12, 2014, to deal with that threat must continue in effect beyond May 12, 2016.