Barack Obama

Drought presents challenges to the viability of agricultural production and to the quantity and quality of drinking water supplies that communities and industries depend upon.

If all you're doing is selling commodities, then it's very hard to spur significant economic growth.

The FTC plays an important role in advancing consumers' interests and promoting competition.

We believe in the Cuban people.

Normalization will be a complex, long-term process and challenges remain, but engagement offers a path toward success where isolation has failed for more than 50 years.

The changes proposed in H.R. 2745 are unnecessary and threaten to undermine the FTC's important role in protecting competition and consumers.

We have great confidence the steps we have taken over the past year will lead to a better future for both the American and Cuban people.

America believes in democracy.

Cooperative action to address climate change is more critical than ever.

In responding to and recovering from past droughts, we have learned that focused collaboration across all levels of government and the private sector is critical to enable productive and workable solutions to build regional resilience to…

Our Nation must sustain and expand efforts to reduce the vulnerability of communities to the impacts of drought.

The Cuban people have nothing to fear from the United States.

For more than half a century, the sight of a U.S. President here in Havana would have been unimaginable.

Cuba is welcoming more foreign investment.

I believe that if we stay on this course, we can deliver a better and brighter future for both the Cuban people and the American people.

But as is true with countries around the world where we have normalized relations, we will continue to stand up for basic principles that we believe in.

Our commitment to universal human rights and support for democratic principles in Cuba is unwavering.

Every single day, you're bringing the Cuban people and the American people closer together.

You're helping businesses who are trying to figure out ways that they can start working together.

Their future is what we work for so hard, and I'm so grateful to all of you for making it happen.

The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today's terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey.

I hereby delegate to you the functions and authorities vested in the President by sections 101, 201, and 202 of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015.

This moment in our history... particularly benefits from a man who by all accounts is decent, full of integrity.

People are following the fact that, increasingly, our political institutions are broken — and it troubles them.

I once again pledge the full cooperation and support of the United States in these efforts.