03/09/2016
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Even ISIL's leaders know they're going to keep losing."
"We do not pay Ransom for hostages."
"The notion that we would somehow start now in this high-profile way and announce it to the world even as we're looking into the faces of other hostage families whose loved ones are being held hostage ..."
"President Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Dominican Republic to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Danilo Medina."