Barack Obama

Each year, we pause to salute the grandmothers and grandfathers who strengthen our families and shape our Nation.

I want to express my appreciation for the cooperation between U.S. and Turkish both military and intelligence services.

Turkey has borne an enormous burden and has been very generous in accommodating so many people who have been displaced from their homes by the violence.

With grit and determination, our grandparents have built better lives for their loved ones and a better future for our country.

On National Grandparents Day, we honor the anchors of our families and recognize the immeasurable ways they enrich our lives.

I look forward to a very productive discussion around issues that we're both equally concerned about.

The United States strongly supports NATO's cooperation with partners as a means to share more effectively burdens and act worldwide to accomplish our common security goals.

If funded, the U.S. European Reassurance Initiative will include provisions for increased assistance to build capacity in Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia to provide for their own defense and increase interoperability with Western forces.

Today, we pay tribute to our grandparents and all the older Americans who have reached across generations and played an important role in our lives.

I want to congratulate him on his election victory.

Additionally, we are working to help Ukraine develop a new defense strategy and further develop its National Guard.

NATO remains committed to further strengthening and deepening its partnerships, as was agreed during the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago and re-affirmed here in Wales.

We will continue to assess Ukraine's needs to apply future funding towards the highest priority requirements.

I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September 14, 2001.

The U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan will end by the end of this year

We have to step back and make decisions based on threat assessments and where the threat is coming from.

There needs to be a cost.

The United States would be prepared to continue two narrow missions in Afghanistan after 2014: training Afghan forces and supporting counterterrorism operations against the remnants of al-Qa'ida

There's no country that we are more in sync with in terms of our values and our foreign policy and our security cooperation around the world than the United Kingdom.

Above all, we reaffirm the true spirit of 9/11—love, compassion, and sacrifice—and we enshrine it forever in the heart of our Nation.

We do rule out the payment of ransom.

I have determined that it is necessary to continue in effect after September 14, 2014, the national emergency with respect to the terrorist threat.

I ask that the people of the United States honor and remember the victims of September 11, 2001, and their loved ones through prayer, contemplation, memorial services, the visiting of memorials, the ringing of bells, evening candlelight…

We stand tall and unafraid, because no act of terror can match the character of our Union or change who we are.

The terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2014.