Barack Obama

The bottom line is this: We still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give folks the economic security and opportunity they deserve.

We call on the government of Cuba to release Alan Gross immediately and unconditionally.

I encourage all Americans to celebrate this week by visiting their local community health center.

Across our Nation, over 19 million Americans look to community health centers for medical checkups, education, advice, and critical services that keep them healthy.

We are going to get through this.

It is the common interest and purpose of building a stronger, healthier Nation that drives the work of community health centers.

Our incredible service men and women need to know that America values them not simply for what they can do in uniform, but for what they can do when they come home.

The leaders condemned the Assad regime's continued use of indiscriminate violence against the Syrian people.

Moving our economy and our country forward is not a Democratic or a Republican responsibility.

Preventing mass atrocities is a responsibility that all nations share.

Accordingly, I hereby direct the establishment of an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board within 120 days from the date of this Presidential Study Directive.

The actions that can be taken are many--they range from economic to diplomatic interventions, and from non-combat military actions to outright intervention.

66 years since the Holocaust and 17 years after Rwanda, the United States still lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass atrocities and genocide.

This proclamation is effective immediately and shall remain in effect until such time as the Secretary of State determines that it is no longer necessary.

The United States does not become a safe haven for serious violators of human rights and humanitarian law.

Our options are limited to either sending in the military or standing by and doing nothing.

America's reputation suffers, and our ability to bring about change is constrained, when we are perceived as idle in the face of mass atrocities and genocide.

We can ensure... that our national security apparatus recognizes and is responsive to early indicators of potential atrocities.

We can't afford to let politics in Washington hamper our recovery, so this is an important step forward.

I'm pleased that leaders in Congress are working together to break the impasse involving the FAA so that tens of thousands of construction workers and others can go back to work.

I therefore have determined that it is in the interests of the United States to take action to restrict the international travel...

Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States of America.

I hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of persons... would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.

This is another Washington-inflicted wound on America.

Don't put the livelihoods of thousands of people at risk. Don't put projects at risk. And don't let $1 billion at a time when we're scrambling for every dollar we can get left on the table because Congress did not act.