Barack Obama

Comprehensive reform is not only an economic imperative or a security imperative, it's also a moral imperative.

When you lend your voice to the cause of creating jobs and opening opportunity for all communities, I hear you.

We're grateful for the sacrifices you and your families make.

Small businesses embody the promise of America: that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard enough, you can succeed in our country.

It's one thing to talk about courage, it's another thing to respond swiftly, decisively, heroically.

Thank you. We appreciate your service.

Ultimately, that's how change will come.

In his ten years at the FBI, Bob Mueller has set the gold standard for leading the Bureau.

Immigration reform is a moral imperative, and so it's worth seeking greater understanding from our faith.

Jeffrey J. Helmick, of Ohio, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, vice James G. Carr, retired.

The power of poetry is that everybody experiences it differently.

Poetry is the oldest form of travel writing because it takes us to places we can only imagine.

I am honored to nominate them for the District Court Bench, and am confident they will approach the job with the utmost integrity and impartiality.

Over the last three months, we've seen three quarters of a million jobs created in the private sector.

If everybody's pulling together, Democrats, Republicans, business, labor, we are going to be as strong as ever.

A great poem is one that resonates with us, that challenges us, and that teaches us something about ourselves and the world that we live in.

Cathy Ann Bencivengo, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, vice Jeffrey T. Miller, retired.

Poets have always played an important role in telling our American story.

Part of my argument is that we're having to make some decisions about cuts to federal programs now.

There's no doubt that we're in a better place than we were when I first came into office.

Throughout their long and impressive legal careers, Richard G. Andrews, Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo and Jeffrey J. Helmick have distinguished themselves as some of our nation's best and brightest.

Now's the time for companies to start betting on American workers and American products.

Richard G. Andrews, of Delaware, to be United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, vice Joseph J. Farnan, Jr., retired.

We've turned to poetry when we can't find quite the right words to express what we're feeling.

That's why it's so important for us to focus not only on recovery from recession, but also dealing with some of those problems that existed before the recession.