Over the last week, my administration has taken several precautions to address the challenge posed by the 2009 H1N1 flu virus. Today, Id like to take a few minutes to explain why. This is a new strain of the flu virus, and because we havent develope...
Good morning. Over the last three months, my Administration has taken aggressive action to confront an historic economic crisis. As we do everything that we can to create jobs and get our economy moving, were also building a new foundation for lasti...
Its not news to say that we are living through challenging times: The worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. A credit crisis that has made that downturn worse. And a fiscal disaster that has accumulated over a period of years. In the ye...
I speak to you today during a time that is holy and filled with meaning for believers around the world. Earlier this week, Jewish people gathered with family and friends to recite the stories of their ancestors struggle and ultimate liberation. Tomo...
In this new century, we live in a world that has grown smaller and more interconnected than at any time in history. Threats to our nations security and economy can no longer be kept at bay by oceans or by borders drawn on maps. The terrorists who st...
Even as we face an economic crisis which demands our constant focus, forces of nature can also intervene in ways that create other crises to which we must respond and respond urgently. For the people of North and South Dakota and Minnesota who live...
Last week, I spent a few days in California, talking with ordinary Americans in town halls and in the places where they work. We talked about their struggles, and we talked about their hopes. At the end of the day, these men and women werent as conc...
Ive often said that I dont believe government has the answer to every problem or that it can do all things for all people. We are a nation built on the strength of individual initiative. But there are certain things that we cant do on our own. There...
Yesterday, we learned that the economy lost another 651,000 jobs in the month of February, which brings the total number of jobs lost in this recession to 4.4 million. The unemployment rate has now surpassed 8 percent, the highest rate in a quarter...
Two years ago, we set out on a journey to change the way that Washington works. We sought a government that served not the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few, but the middle-class Americans I met every day in every community along...
