Barack Obama: “The POWER Initiative will extend prior workplace safety and health efforts of the Federal Government.”

never talks that way when they are in the same room.

They're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible, so we can forge ahead.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.