Barack Obama

It would be catastrophic to the United States. Default by the United States would precipitate a crisis worse than the one we just went through.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end.

When we are this close simply because of politics, and we are prepared to put whatever resources are required in terms of time and energy to get this done, but that's what the American people expect. They don't like these games. And we…

The international community made clear that all attacks against civilians had to stop; Qadhafi had to stop his forces from advancing on Benghazi; pull them back from Ajdabiya, Misrata, and Zawiya; and establish water, electricity, and gas…

I set this goal knowing that we're still going to have to import some oil.

Our nuclear powerplants have undergone exhaustive study, and have been declared safe for any number of extreme contingencies. But when we see a crisis like the one in Japan, we have a responsibility to learn from this event, and to draw…

First of all, I think it's important to note that the people that we have met with have been fully vetted. So we have a clear sense of who they are. And so far they're saying the right things and most of them are professionals, lawyers…

I'm not ruling it out, but I'm also not ruling it in. We're still making an assessment partly about what Gadhafi's forces are -- are going to be doing.

Didn't just come from laying down infrastructure or pavement. They came from businesses that opened near a town's new train station or the new off ramp.

If Qadhafi succeeds in violently repressing his people, democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship.

For those who doubted our capacity to carry out this operation, I want to be clear. The United States of America has done what we said we would do.

At this particular moment, we were faced with the prospect of violence on a horrific scale. We had a unique ability to stop that violence, an international mandate for action, a broad coalition prepared to join us, the support of Arab…

There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system.

Today, there is hope.

I agreed on the importance of our partnership on Citizen Security in Central America.

I thanked Chile for its leadership in co-sponsoring the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Iran.

I underscored the importance of the new bilateral Economic and Financial Dialogue and the Strategic Energy Dialogue.

I encourage parents to talk with their children about drugs and alcohol.

I appreciate Russia's support for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

We do not build our policy in any country around a single person.

Prevention begins at home.

We have to share these burdens.

We have been successful so far in accomplishing the very specific objectives of the mission under the U.N. Charter.

We are not invading a country.

We don't just have military tools at our disposal in terms of accomplishing Gadhafi's leaving.