Barack Obama

We plant seeds now… and we watch each successive class benefit from these reforms.

Each of us can do our part to practice fire safety and to support the dedicated volunteers and professionals who risk everything to protect our homes and communities.

I call upon families, educators, health professionals, faith-based and community organizations, and all levels of government to help ensure America's children are healthy.

This is not the way the United States should be operating.

We take all credible accounts of civilian deaths very seriously.

We can't fund our country the way we did 10 years ago, because we have greater demands.

Keeping our children healthy takes more than promoting good lifestyles today—it also rests on leaving them with a stable world to live in tomorrow.

I thanked Prime Minister Turnbull for Australia's support to the counter-ISIL coalition.

Right now, I can imagine the press release is being cranked out. We need more guns they will argue. Fewer gun safety laws. Does anybody really believe that?

And what's become routine, of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common sense gun legislation.

Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the after path of it, we become numb to this.

As I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It's not enough.

We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings.

He seems fired up. He wants to do something.

If you care about the gun control issue, make this a single issue, vote on this issue.

We spend over a trillion dollars, and pass countless laws, and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so. And yet, we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we…

Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic.

We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths, so the notion that gun laws don't work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals will still get their guns is not borne out by the…

To allow this to happen every few months in America, we collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction.

I think we need to do something on guns as a no brainier.

We know that States with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths.

Our thoughts and prayers are not enough.

The bill fails to fully fund critical priorities, including veterans' medical care and military construction.

Enacting H.R. 2029 would hurt our economy and shortchange investments in middle-class priorities.

Somehow, this has become routine.