Barack Obama

Now, is not the time to double your interest rates on student loans.

Now is not the time to double your interest rates on student loans. Michelle and I, we have been in your shoes. We only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago. Americans now owe more on their student loans than they do…

We want every veteran who wants a job to get a job.

It's a vision for an America where everybody who works hard has the chance to get ahead.

Your generation--the 9/11 generation--has written one of the greatest chapters of military service that America has ever seen.

These are encouraging signs that the private sector is continuing to heal from the worst recession since the Great Depression.

This country exists because generations of Americans worked together and looked out for one other.

You've performed heroically in some of the most dangerous places on Earth.

I promise you we'll finish what we started in 2008.

You have worn the uniform with honor.

When women make less than men for the same work, that hurts families who have to get by with less.

Today, we reflect on their sacrifice, and we rededicate ourselves to protecting the health, safety, and dignity of every worker.

I won't be satisfied until everybody can find a job that pays a living wage and allows them either to stay in the middle class, but also creates those ladders of opportunity into the middle class.

The men and women of the Secret Service hold themselves to a very high standard.

Taking action to stop the doubling of these rates will save students $1,000, on average, over the life of their loans.

This is about making sure you succeed, because when you succeed, our country succeeds.

I'm not going to be satisfied until we once again have the best education system in the world and college is affordable for young people all across the country.

The economy posted its 11th straight quarter of positive growth.

The Principles should ensure that these educational institutions provide meaningful information to service members, veterans, spouses, and other family members about the financial cost and quality of educational institutions.

And we owe that same commitment to all of you.

This is a politically-motivated proposal and not the serious response that the problem facing America's college students deserves.

That sense that we would be passing on a future for our children that was greater than ours.

My commitment, my sense of determination is undiminished.

Jodi Gillette will be an important member of my Administration's efforts to continue the historic progress we've made to strengthen and build on the government-to-government relationship between the United States and tribal nations.

We owe the same obligations to this generation of service men and women as was afforded that previous one.