Barack Obama

I am calling for a new effort to ensure that the U.S. has the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods, and information.

I am calling for a bipartisan effort to reform the corporate tax code.

To ensure that the U.S. has the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods, and information.

We have to win the race to educate our children.

Supporting the well-being of our military families will be a priority not just for the Departments of Defense and the Departments of Veterans Affairs, but all across the Federal Government.

This is a matter of national security.

I want every servicemember who's deployed to know that when you're over there taking care of the country that you love, your country is back here taking care of the families that you love.

Take care of our families.

1 percent of Americans may be fighting our wars; 100 percent of Americans need to be supporting our troops and their families.

I am grateful these accomplished individuals have agreed to continue their service to the nation, and I'm confident they will serve ably in these important roles.

Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects women's health and reproductive freedom and affirms a fundamental principle that government should not intrude on private family matters.

I hope that we will recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights, the same freedoms, and the same opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.

I am committed to protecting this constitutional right.

This is America. We still have that spirit of invention and that sense of optimism.

We need to export more goods around the world.

Our job now is putting our economy into overdrive.

Instead create good-paying jobs that build toward the future.

I want plants like this all across America.

America is still home to the most creative and most innovative businesses in the world.

The deals we struck are going to mean more than $45 billion in new business for American companies.

I want to work to scale back the excessive defensive medicine that reinforces our current system and shift to a system where we are providing better care rather than simply more treatment.

We cannot forget: We are the heirs of this President, who showed us what is possible.

I find the great things in this world--is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

His legacy is written in the villages around the world that have clean water or a new school through the Peace Corps.

We can reach great heights.