Barack Obama

Unless Congress acts by March 1st, a series of automatic cuts—called a sequester—that threaten thousands of jobs and the economic security of the middle class will take effect.

Small businesses create two-thirds of all new jobs in America.

What public service ought to be.

The most damaging effects of a sequester on the middle class are cuts to education.

We need to be carefully reducing the deficit in a way that protects the most vulnerable.

Leon, from your first day in uniform until today, your dedicated service to America has spanned nearly 50 remarkable years.

Balance is how we're going to approach it.

This son of immigrants...will be remembered for historic progress in welcoming more of our fellow citizens to military service.

Let me be clear, those impacts would be severe and must not be allowed to occur.

If a sequester takes effect, up to 373,000 seriously mentally ill adults and seriously emotionally disturbed children could go untreated.

Our schools fail too many.

It is not acceptable to say, seniors, the bill is in the mail; bail us out, but those who enjoy the benefit of a loophole for their corporate jets or get subsidies for their large and profitable oil or gas company, we're not going to ask…

We cannot shy away from taking those steps.

I am honored to nominate them today to serve the American people on the United States Court of Appeals.

Let us retain that humility not just during this hour, but for every hour.

I want to do something big to provide certainty and steadiness for the economy and for American families.

We are all created equal.

One of the things that we've got to do is put a legal architecture in place.

Faith is not a possession, faith is a process.

I have no doubt that we will continue the extraordinary progress that we've made already.

It says something about us that every year, in times of triumph and in tragedy, in calm and in crisis, we come together, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as brothers and sisters and as children of God.

I am confident that they will be judicious and esteemed additions to the Federal Circuit.

It grows from the middle out and the bottom up, not from the top down.

We must keep that same humility that Dr. King and Lincoln and Washington and all our great leaders understood is at the core of true leadership.

I love Nancy Pelosi.