Barack Obama

The point is we want to use science; we want doctors and medical experts to be making decisions.

I want to thank the Members of Congress who put politics aside and stood up to support a bill that will provide for the safety of our troops and the American people.

James Legarde Hudson, of the District of Columbia, to be United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vice Kenneth L. Peel.

Their expertise and commitment make them valuable additions to our team as we work to confront our many challenges.

This Act provides the necessary resources for our troops while supporting ongoing diplomatic and development efforts around the world.

We noted our upcoming July travel to Italy.

The collective judgment of the Service Chiefs and Secretaries of the military departments suggests that a final program of record of 187 F-22s is sufficient to meet operational requirements.

We should be able to design a system in which people still have choices of doctors and choices of plans.

We can come up with ways that don't prevent people from getting the care they need.

I'm grateful for the decision of these fine individuals to serve their country at this critical time for our nation.

The funding provided in this Act will ensure that the full force of the United States is engaged in an overall effort to defeat al Qaeda and uproot this safe haven.

Defeat terrorist networks in Afghanistan.

It is bankrupting families.

We know things are going to have to change.

It also expands the resources available to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by allowing it to boost its lending ability.

We're not going to solve every single one of these very difficult decisions at end of life.

I'll simplify the financial aid application process so that we don't have a million students who aren't applying for aid because it's too difficult.

The current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

If you like what you have, you can keep it.

Nobody disputes this.

We are going to clean the Chesapeake Bay up.

Because what we don't want is kids going down that path in the first place.

Look, I've said before that, as a former smoker, I constantly struggle with it. Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. The -- am I daily smoker, a constant smoker? No.

This tired of strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work anymore in Iran.

I have made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is not interfering with Iran's affairs. But we must also bear witness to the courage and the dignity of the Iranian people and to a…