Barack Obama

Collectively, the 10 countries of ASEAN represent the United States' fourth-largest goods trading partner.

ASEAN is a significant trade and investment partner for the United States.

We are expanding trade and investment ties between the United States and ASEAN, creating business opportunities and new jobs for both parties.

This year, we launched a series of workshops under the U.S.-ASEAN Trade and Environment Dialogue to promote mutually supportive policies.

Today, we elevated our relationship to the ASEAN-U.S. Strategic Partnership to strengthen the role our relationship plays in realizing this common vision of a peaceful, prosperous Asia-Pacific region that offers security, opportunity and…

The United States and ASEAN will continue cooperating through a wide range of activities towards a low-carbon economic growth trajectory.

We reaffirm the importance of maintaining peace and stability, ensuring maritime security and safety, and freedom of navigation including in and over-flight above the South China Sea.

Raising the minimum wage is one of the best ways to give a well-earned boost to working families.

Youth in ASEAN have a critical role to play in innovation.

The science is very clear that because of the carbon emissions that we send in, mostly from the use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, coal—the temperatures worldwide, on average, are getting higher.

We also honor the men and women in uniform who fight to safeguard our country and our freedoms.

People who have a different sexual orientation are deserving of respect and dignity like everybody else, and they shouldn't go to jail for it.

Every day, families offer comfort and support to one another with enduring and unconditional love and they contribute to their communities and our country.

The United States is not going to have an intelligence file on every individual in a refugee camp.

Young people like you are going to define the future of this region for decades to come.

None -- zero -- have ever been detained or deported because of concerns about links to terrorism.

We are doing all we can to protect our citizens from terrorist threats.

I think our own country's history demonstrates that that's not who we are, that we're a country that is enriched by many communities, including our own Muslim community.

Old people don't do that because they're comfortable or they've become resigned or they become cynical or they're just tired or they're comfortable, and so they don't ask those questions.

Part of what I'm trying to persuade business is that you have to start now, and there's business opportunities.

Each of us brings our own traditions, cultures, and recipes to this quintessential American holiday.

It's inconsistent with our values to close the door on these people.

It is the responsibility of all Americans to build a country future generations will be proud of and inspired by.

Thanksgiving offers an opportunity for us to express our gratitude for the gifts we have and to show our appreciation for all we hold dear.

Connecting to each other, understanding each other can have a profound impact.