I took the view as president, we need to be honest about our history — especially in the face of ongoing efforts to erase our history.

There’s nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.

We’re going to be able to beat this.

Let’s get the hell to work and get more done.

I don’t come here today to only commemorate the past. I come here because we know the good Lord isn’t done with us yet.

We need to be honest about our history.

Of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.

Some say ... it doesn't deserve to be a federal holiday. They don't want to remember.

Still today, some say to me and you that this doesn't deserve to be a federal holiday. They don't want to remember...the moral stain of slavery.

Darkness can hide much but can erase nothing.

Under President Joe Biden, the United States intervened to also argue that the Tennessee law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

That decision ultimately belongs to the president. But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue.

the events of Juneteenth are of monumental importance to America's story.

What are we doing now? Reinstating those names.

As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would celebrate Juneteenth. On Juneteenth 1939, when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home. But such hate never stopped her, any more than it stopped the vast majority of you I’m looking at from this podium.

I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use.

I can assure you that [the president] is only interested in using the American military to accomplish American people's goals.

As you know, there’s new sheriff in town!