Barack Obama

This economy is getting stronger by the day.

The anxiety that's out there today isn't new.

Stopping this oil spill and containing its damage is necessarily the top priority not just of my administration, but, I think, of the entire country.

Now, some of you may have noticed that we have been building this foundation without much help from our friends in the other party.

Our alliance is needed more than ever.

We cannot return to the pre-crisis status quo.

There's no natural lobby for the research that may lead to a lifesaving medical breakthrough.

In the future, all agencies that provide new benefits to the spouses of Federal employees and their children should, to the extent permitted by law, also provide them to the same-sex domestic partners of their employees and those same-sex…

We have to acknowledge that an America run solely on fossil fuels should not be the vision we have for our children and our grandchildren.

We must build a new, stronger foundation for growth and prosperity.

For far too long, many of our Government's hard-working, dedicated LGBT employees have been denied equal access to the basic rights and benefits their colleagues enjoy.

Our alliance is unshaken.

Popular music is fleeting.

They helped to lay the soundtrack for an entire generation, an era of endless possibility and of great change.

We can't afford to return to the precrisis status quo.

All agencies offering any of the benefits specified by OPM in implementing guidance under section 3 of this memorandum should take all appropriate action to provide the same level of benefits that is provided to employees' spouses and…

We will not be held hostage to energy sources from the last century.

While this memorandum is an important step on the path to equality, my administration continues to be prevented by existing Federal law from providing same-sex domestic partners with the full range of benefits enjoyed by heterosexual…

America does not stand still.

I signed a memorandum that requires executive agencies to take immediate action to extend to the same-sex domestic partners of Federal employees a number of meaningful benefits.

I renew my call for swift passage of an important piece of legislation pending in both Houses of Congress, the 'Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act.'

You and President Lee have shown extraordinary patience and self-restraint.

They're all in cahoots, you know. They're making money. And the people, again, here are suffering.

I think that that's going a little overboard, but where there might be some similarities is the slow response.

Why are we going to believe anything BP says? I mean, they're a foreign company. And they're running stuff.