What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously..

My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African worker….

We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on….

My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done..

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more mone….

There's something about the American spirit -– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are goi….

We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and m….

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I ….

Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's b….

I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out lar….

Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people aren't aware of,….

Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses ….

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape..

Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and ….

I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a co….

My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. Yo….

Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a remi….

Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in t….

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.

Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year….

I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more effi….