Barack Obama

I have now run my last campaign.

Students who rely on these loans to finance postsecondary education should not be burdened with high interest rates as they seek to graduate, launch a career or a business, start a family, or buy a house.

Education is a cornerstone to the foundation we need to build economically.

It's time for the minimum wage to go up.

This compromise is a major victory for our Nation's students.

Immigration reform we've got to get done.

I urge the House to pass this bill so that I can sign it into law right away.

A better bargain for the middle class means making a college education available to every single American willing to work for it.

We think it is the most important thing we can talk about, and that's why the President is giving this address today.

The amendment also rejects unfair and unwise approaches that would raise student loan interest rates to pay for deficit reduction.

A stable and growing middle class is essential to the kind of economic growth that we need in the country.

I worry that we're not moving faster to seize the moment.

Here is what will build support, given that we've been outspent four to one from the other side with all kinds of distortions about health care.

The economy is far stronger now than it was four and a half years ago.

We are about to produce more of our own oil than we buy from abroad for the first time in nearly 20 years.

America has always worked better when everybody has a chance to succeed.

We're going to continue to focus on strategies to make sure our Tax Code rewards companies that are not shipping jobs overseas, but creating jobs right here in the United States of America.

The past is a bucket of ashes.

I do not understand the argument that that somehow grows the economy or strengthens the middle class.

If we stand pat, if we don't do anything, then growth will be slower than it should be.

It would reduce interest rates for nearly 11 million borrowers taking out new loans this school year.

This is the agenda we have to be working on.

There are very few African-American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me.

I was proud of my efforts to make the Executive Branch and the federal judiciary more diverse.

And we could not be more proud of them and more grateful to them.