Barack Obama

By investing in renewable energy and supporting climate-smart agricultural practices, rural communities and businesses can help slow the effects of climate change while creating jobs and growing the economy.

That is why the President is taking action now.

The sooner we act, the more we can do to protect rural America.

Climate change can no longer be seen as a distant threat.

Companies across the U.S. understand that reducing carbon pollution and growing the economy go hand-in-hand.

The armored vehicles that are now being used as suicide bombs by ISIS.

There are outcomes we can calculate – the number of newly insured families, the number of lives saved.

The rugged individualism that defines America has always been bound by a set of shared values; an enduring sense that we are in this together.

It's serving so many more people so much better.

That's not freedom. The freedom to languish in illness or to be bankrupt because somebody in your family gets sick—that's not who we are.

Making health insurance fairer and easier to buy would lead to the end of freedom—[laughter]—the end of the American way of life.

Nearly one in three uninsured Americans have already been covered.

Enacting H.R. 2685 and adhering to the congressional Republican budget's overall spending limits for FY 2016 would hurt our economy and shortchange investments in middle-class priorities.

I was determined to be the last.

Health care is not a privilege, it is a right.

The partnership will enable the U.S. Government to apply the technologies, scientific expertise, and capacities it has developed under the President's Climate Action Plan to support resilience efforts in developing nations.

It seems so cynical to want to take coverage away from millions of people.

Climate change threatens our entire planet.

Every human being, made in the image of God, deserves to live in dignity.

So after nearly a century of talk, after decades of trying, after a year of sustained debate, we finally made health care reform a reality for America.

The dignity of a grandfather who can get the preventive care he needs.

We were fortunate enough to have good health insurance.

This is reality. This is health care in America.

We have a responsibility to improve the prevention of infectious diseases.

I am confident that although it is going to take time and there will be setbacks and lessons learned, that we are going to be successful.