Barack Obama

I call upon all courageous cancer patients and survivors, health care providers, researchers, advocates, and others involved in this struggle to work together in support of our Nation's goal to control, and ultimately defeat, this…

We both pledged to instruct our governments to make efforts to finalize as soon as possible Russia's accession into the World Trade Organization.

We agreed to work on a bilateral basis and at international forums to resolve regional conflicts.

The challenges that await him at the G20 summit, ahead.

Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice. It is the only way, the one way to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.

I congratulate the House on passing the bipartisan 'Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.'

Lawrence E. Strickling, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information.

Ines R. Triay, of New Mexico, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Environmental Management).

We're looking for a constructive relationship that addresses the issues that we have that are of mutual concern.

The pledge is to evaluate whether or not more steps will be needed in the future to address the breadth and severity of the crisis.

Jonathan Z. Cannon, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Nobody believes that a change in our relationship means giving anybody all that they want.

I call on all Americans to stand up and do what they can to serve their communities.

Si se puede--'Yes we can,' was more than a slogan, it was an expression of hope and a rejection of those who said farm workers could not organize and could not take on the growers.

Some say he's gone too far. Others say what he calls tough love should be even tougher.

His decision to essentially fire the head of GM.

I don't think I have lost any friends. But I'm sure I have strained some friendships. And, look, this -- this is an invigorating job. In some ways, I feel incredibly fortunate to be in this job at a time where the presidency really…

We don't want a situation in which some countries are making extraordinary efforts and other countries aren't with the hope that somehow the countries that are making those important steps lift everybody up.

I don't think I've lost any friends. But I'm sure I've strained some friendships. And, look, this is an invigorating job. In some ways, I feel incredibly fortunate to be in this job at a time where the presidency really matters. This is…

But we've reached the end of that road. And so today I'm announcing that my administration will offer GM and Chrysler a limited additional period of time to work with creditors, unions and other stakeholders to fundamentally restructure in…

It's a failure of leadership, from Washington to Detroit, that led our auto companies to this point. Year after year, decade after decade, we've seen problems papered over and tough choices kicked down the road even as foreign competitors…

There are jobs that won't be saved. There are plants that may not reopen.

This is not meant as a condemnation of Mr. Wagoner, whose devoted his life to this company and has had a distinguished career, rather, it's a recognition that will take new vision and new direction to create the GM of the future.

It's a failure of leadership from Washington to Detroit that led our auto companies to this point.

There are jobs that won't be safe. There are plants that may not reopen.