Barack Obama

At the peak of Operation Tomodachi--our single, largest bilateral military operation with Japan ever--the Department of Defense had 24,000 personnel, 190 aircraft, and 24 Navy ships supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief…

The friendship and alliance between our two nations is unshakeable.

The economy has added private sector jobs for 24 straight months, for a total of more than 3.9 million payroll jobs over that period.

An economy that's built to last is one that supports our scientists and our researchers.

We are inventors. We are builders.

Our ability to bounce back and then thrive is also going to depend on some choices that we make right now.

I'm confident that we're going to be able to keep moving over the next year, the next 5 years, the next 10 years, the next 20 years.

I did not run for this office just to get back to where we were.

But if you are ready for change, then we can go ahead and tell the lobbyists, their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.

I would not take money from federal lobbyists. They have not funded my campaign. They will not run my White House. And they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I'm president of the United States of America.

We will not take a dime from Washington lobbyists or special interest PACs. We're going to change how Washington works. They will not fund my party. They will not run our White House and they will not drown out the voice of the American…

Ghana has proven, I think, to be a model for Africa in terms of its democratic practices.

We the People initiative to give all Americans an opportunity to petition the government on a range of issues affecting our nation.

I will strive to lead the most open, transparent, and accountable government in history.

As a Nation, we're facing tough choices as we put our fiscal house in order. But I want to be absolutely clear: We cannot and we must not balance the budget on the backs of our veterans.

The key to our success--as it has always been--will be to compete by developing new products, by generating new industries, by maintaining our role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation.

Anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn't know what he or she is talking about, or isn't telling you the truth.

The blueprint for an economy built to last begins with American manufacturing.

We have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back. But we have to seize it.

[An] economy built to last demands that we keep doing everything we can to . . . keep strengthening American manufacturing.

That's just common sense.

Responsible homeowners should not have to sit and wait for the market to hit bottom to get relief.

Don will be missed, and our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends during this difficult time.

We're going to do this on our own.

The United States stands ready to do our part through a new partnership that puts the focus where it should be – on the security of citizens.