Barack Obama

Today, we are announcing that this year 18 new leading organization achieved their Better Buildings goals many years ahead of schedule.

Since the Better Buildings Challenge was launched, the program has catalyzed more than $10 billion in public and private sector financing commitments to improve energy efficiency.

Cutting energy and water waste not only drives carbon reductions, but creates a stronger building infrastructure.

Every day that passes without Congressional action to support the treatment needs of those suffering from opioid use disorder is a missed opportunity to help the many communities facing the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic.

You can't win all the time.

Their triumphs are an example of the ways that sports can bring an incredible sense of competitive fire, but also teamwork and cooperation, discipline and hard work to a young person's life.

This program has done is that each year, it has set a high bar for excellence.

Bring home the gold!

I'm not going out to pasture here.

I hereby delegate functions and authorities vested in the President by section 3136(h) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016.

If you've got it, if you can back it up, then you're not being cocky, you're just being accurate.

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

The situation in and in relation to the Central African Republic continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

First of all, it is absolutely true that there are a lot of folks who still are struggling out there.

People who vote and elect representatives who share their views end up determining the agenda.

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?'

I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13667 with respect to the Central African Republic.

We are the only advanced democracy that makes it deliberately difficult for people to vote.

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

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

We have slashed the amount of time it takes to fill out, tried to make it much simpler and more user-friendly.

Well, this is where we actually had a live view of what was happening.

I just want to emphasize the degree to which we are in serious times and this is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show.

Making sure they're treated fairly is the least we can do.

I hope that on this Mother's Day, we'll recommit ourselves to doing more than that.