Barack Obama

Reducing our dependence on foreign oil is still the right thing to do for our security.

Those actions prevented another great depression; they broke the back of a severe recession.

We should put them into action without delay.

We can't afford to spin our wheels while the rest of the world speeds ahead.

We believe in a strategy of more production, more efficiency, and more incentives for clean energy.

These regulations build on the excellent work of the Congress and will make critically needed services available to the millions of Americans who are struggling with addiction.

As long as these weapons exist, the United States will maintain a safe, secure, and effective arsenal to deter any adversary, and guarantee that defense to our allies.

The path for North Korea to realize its future is clear: a return to the Six-Party Talks; upholding previous commitments, including a return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and the complete, verifiable, and irreversible…

It is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

Jobs will be our number one focus in 2010, and we're going to start where most new jobs do - with small businesses.

We urge the government of China to protect the unique cultural and religious traditions of Tibet.

That’s particularly critical right now, as bank lending standards have tightened, and many small businesses are struggling to get loans.

Small businesses like this have created roughly 65 percent of all new jobs over the past decade and a half.

We should eliminate all capital gains taxes on small business investment.

The Dalai Lama is an internationally respected religious and cultural leader.

Together with our proposal to cut taxes for small businesses to spur hiring and increase wages, we are making the critical investments we need for our economic recovery.

Jobs will be our number one focus in 2010.

I ran to solve problems for the next generation.

No one should be satisfied with a system that allows insurance companies to deny care to folks with pre-existing conditions.

This proposal takes the money that was repaid by Wall Street banks to provide capital for community banks on Main Street.

The more loans these banks provide to creditworthy small businesses, the better a deal we’ll give them on capital from this Fund.

It’s the spirit that drives small business owners like Kedar Gupta.

Should the Congress accept the President's budget proposal, it would be the lowest, single-year funding level for the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act since it was enacted in 1996.

We've been there before, there's a lot more of space to explore.

Let us add our own chapter, full of progress and ambition, so that our children's children will know that we, too, did our part to erase an unjust past and build a brighter future.