Barack Obama

Child and elder care are key to the economic growth of our country and the wellbeing of our families.

Our hearts go out to the families of those who have been killed.

We have made a commitment to ensuring that women and girls have equal rights, treatment and protections.

America's progress in science and technology has countless revolutionary discoveries within our reach.

This is a devastating attack on all Americans.

The updated U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally reflects our growing understanding of gender-based violence.

New breakthroughs in treating cancer and ending the wait for organ transplants... That's some of what America can do.

It is being treated as a terrorist investigation.

Today, as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder—a horrific massacre—of dozens of innocent people.

We can never thank them enough.

We need to demonstrate that we are defined more—as a country—by the way they lived their lives than by the hate of the man who took them from us.

This could have been any one of our communities.

This is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American...is an attack on all of us.

Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history.

What is clear is that he was a person filled with hatred.

I know that some folks in Puerto Rico are worried about this kind of oversight.

There is only one way for Puerto Rico to pull itself out of this crisis, and that's by restructuring its debt and finding a sustainable fiscal path toward growth and opportunity for its people.

Puerto Ricans are American citizens, just like folks in Maine or Oklahoma or New Mexico.

This bill is not a perfect solution; nobody's saying it is.

The American flag invokes pride in our citizens and hope in those who come to our shores in search of a brighter tomorrow.

Let us pay tribute to the Star Spangled Banner and continue striving to create a more perfect and indivisible Union—with liberty and justice for all.

Our flag persists as a powerful representation of freedom and opportunity.

I have determined that the performance of the proposed Agreement will promote, and will not constitute an unreasonable risk to, the common defense and security.

That's bad for not only those individuals, it's bad for our economy.

In fact, I don't think there's been anyone so qualified to hold this office. And I'm with her. I am fired up, and I cannot wait to get out there and campaign for Hillary.