Barack Obama

The world can't wait for Congress to get its act together.

More than two centuries ago, our forebears began an unending journey to form a more perfect Union.

These yearnings for economic freedom and opportunity, just as much as political freedom, are at the root of so much of the change we've seen around the world.

Linda Vivienne Parker, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, vice Robert H. Cleland, retired.

We should be able to find common ground here.

I will not sign a budget deal that hurts middle-class families.

Judith Ellen Levy, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, vice Nancy G. Edmunds, retired.

Each of you have traveled your own path, but each of you have also lived out an American story.

We celebrate innovators like Aunim Hossain, who designed a hand-held device to help detect breast cancer.

Together, we have come a long way toward ensuring equal opportunity for all.

We offer our deepest sympathies and condolences to the families and loved ones of the more than 80 people who lost their lives.

Shutting down the Government just because I'm for keeping it open, that's not an economic plan.

The United States is committed to providing further medical and other care and assistance for persons with disabilities, regardless of cause.

The horrific violence in Syria is something that needs to stop.

Today, we raise awareness about preventing and treating viral hepatitis.

A strong middle class is the engine of our national economy.

We extend our wishes for a full recovery to those who were hurt.

Laurie J. Michelson, of Michigan, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, vice George Caram Steeh III, retired.

Today, we celebrate the ADA's lasting legacy as a pillar of civil rights.

I reaffirm the United States' support for Vietnam's independence, sovereignty, prosperity, and integration into the international community.

This isn't what I'm going to be focusing on for the next few months, this is what I'm going to be focusing on for all the days I've got left in my Presidency.

Is this who we are? Is that something our Founding Fathers foresaw? Is that the America we want to leave our children? Our sense of justice is stronger than that.

No one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty. I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage because it's lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It's time for the…

For the rest of his term, he's focusing on working-class Americans.

I want to make sure everybody in Washington is obsessed with is how are we growing the economy.