Barack Obama

It is important to the national security interests of the United States to waive the provisions of section 7040(a) of the Act, in order to provide funds appropriated to carry out Chapter 4 of Part II of the Foreign Assistance Act, as…

College isn't just the best investment that you can make in your future, it's the best investment you can make in your country's future.

Legislation should address core critical infrastructure vulnerabilities without sacrificing the fundamental values of privacy and civil liberties for our citizens.

Get Congress to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling in July.

This is about your job security. This is about your future.

Failing to take action would result in interest rates on these student loans doubling, which would in turn have a very negative impact on millions of students across the country.

The American people expect their Government to enhance security without undermining their privacy and civil liberties.

That is what we believe. You and me, all of us, we're only here because someone, somewhere, felt a responsibility not just to themselves, but to this country's future.

Young Americans have enormous amounts of enthusiasm and hope and energy about their own personal futures, about the country's future.

Making sure our next generation earns the best education possible is exactly America's business.

We can't price the middle class out of a college education.

This is absolutely about our economy.

I just want to say thank you to all the people who are taking an interest in this important issue.

Helping more young people afford college should be at the forefront of America's agenda.

The degree you earn from Iowa will be the best tool you have to achieve that basic American promise.

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

That's bad for the students. It's bad for their families. It's bad for the economy in the near term and in the long term.

A higher education is the single clearest path to the middle class.

Look, we've had 24, 25 straight months of job growth after the Republican policies sort of put us in a nosedive.

That's the dream that your parents have for you. And keeping that promise alive, that's the defining issue of our time.

This country has always made a commitment to put a good education within the reach of everybody.

The only way to achieve real and lasting security is to resolve your differences through negotiation.

I want this forever to be a country where everybody gets a fair shot, everybody is doing their fair share, everybody plays by the same set of rules.

The degree you earn from Colorado is going to be the best tool that you've got to achieve the American promise, by far.

We honor the memory of the 1.5 million Armenians who were brutally massacred or marched to their deaths in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire.