It's time to expect more from our students. It's time to start rewarding good teachers, stop making excuses for bad ones. It's time to demand results from government at every level.

The Bush Administration fundamentally saw the internationalization of financial markets as a pretext for weakening U.S. investor protections.

We need to regulate institutions for what they do, not what they are.

It is vital that we fully fund FAA in order to ensure we can modernize our air traffic control systems.

The most important goal of government support must be to get banks lending again by ensuring they are properly capitalized.

We have let our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short, and other nations outpace us.

Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my Administration on a wide range of issues.

Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells.

Science, not politics, would guide his Administration's approach to difficult public policy issues we face today.

But after much discussion, debate and reflection, the proper course has become clear. The majority of Americans from across the political spectrum and from all backgrounds and beliefs have come to a consensus that we should pursue this…

Health care reform is no longer just a moral imperative, it's a fiscal imperative. If we want to create jobs and rebuild our economy and get our federal budget under control, then we have to address the crushing cost of health care this…