In Obama's Words

Obama delivers remarks on energy security

We're already paying a price for our inaction. Every time we fill up at the pump, every time we lose a job or a business to countries that are investing more than we do in clean energy, when it comes to our air, our water, and the climate change that threatens the planet that you will inherit -- we're already paying a price. These are costs that we are already bearing. And if we do nothing, the price will only go up.”

• Other issues:Energy and Environment

Obama holds a town hall on clean energy in Fairless Hills, Pa.

Reducing our dependence on oil, doubling the clean energy we use, helping to grow our economy by securing our energy future -- that's going to be a big challenge. And it's going to require effort. It's going to require ingenuity. It's going to require us coming together. It's going to require us getting past some of the petty politics that we play sometimes. But we can meet that challenge.”

• Other issues:Economy, Energy and Environment

Obama's Press Conference

The most critical part of our strategy is to ensure that we do not return to an economic cycle of bubble and bust in this country.”

• Other issues:Economy, Government and Politics, Health Care

Obama's Remarks at Stimulus Bill Signing

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that I will sign today, a plan that meets the principles I laid out in January, is the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama speaks at town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H.

So I won't walk away from these efforts. I won't walk away from these people. And I don't think Congress should either. I think we should keep working to get this done -- Democrats and Republicans together.”

• Other issues:Economy, Government and Politics, Health Care

Obama delivers remarks at a job training center

It's a plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years and some 800 permanent jobs, well-paying permanent jobs, in the years to come. And this is only the beginning.”

• Other issues:Economy, Energy and Environment

Obama delivers remarks on energy in Boulder City, Nev.

Now, you'd think given this extraordinary site, given the fact that this is creating jobs, generating power, helping to keep our environment clean, making us more competitive globally, you'd think that everybody would be supportive of solar power. That's what you'd think. And yet, if some politicians had their way, there won't be any more public investment in solar energy. There won't be as many new jobs and new businesses.”

• Other issues:Energy and Environment

Obama delivers remarks on energy at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo.

The reason we're at Buckley is because the military is doing its part. The military is doing its part, as usual. As usual. Now, it's important for the military to do its part because we're the largest -- our military is the largest energy consumer in the world. So we can set a good example and help create an additional market for clean energy. The Navy is going to purchase enough clean energy capacity to power a quarter of a million homes a year. And it won't cost taxpayers a dime.”

• Other issues:Energy and Environment

Obama delivers remarks on jobs and the economy and hosts discussion with workers

What government can do is create the conditions for companies to succeed.”

• Other issues:Economy, Science and Technology

Obama makes remarks on offshore drilling

So today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration -- but in ways that balance the need to harness domestic energy resources and the need to protect America's natural resources.”

• Other issues:Energy and Environment

Obama delivers remarks at solar energy center

This is the nation... that harnessed electricity and the energy contained in an atom; that developed a steam boat and the modern cell; that connected a continent with a massive system of highways and railroads.”

• Other issues:Energy and Environment, Science and Technology

Obama delivers remarks on energy in Miami, Florida

We can't just allow ourselves to be held hostage by the ups and downs of the world oil market. We have to keep developing new sources of energy. We have to keep developing new technology that helps us use less energy. We have to keep relying on the American know-how and ingenuity that comes from places like the University of Miami. That's our future.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama delivers remarks on the economy in Savannah, Ga.

So as we're looking for additional initiatives to spur hiring, I think we ought to embrace what's happening on this campus. I think we ought to continue to embrace the incredible potential that awaits us across America in clean energy.”

• Other issues:Economy, Energy and Environment

Obama Delivers Remarks on Energy

I've appointed a global climate envoy to help lead our re-engagement with the international community, as we find sustainable ways to transition to a global low- carbon economy.”

• Other issues:Energy and Environment

Obama delivers remarks on energy in Columbus, Ohio

For anybody who's not familiar with this, the Buckeye Bullet is the fastest electric car in the world. The fastest in the world. I don't know who's going to need to go that fast. But it is a testament to the ingenuity here at Ohio State and what is essential to American leadership when it comes to energy -- our brain power. I will say, though, when Malia gets her license in a few years, she will not be allowed to go 300 miles an hour.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics

Obama delivers the State of the Union address in Washington, D.C.

Think about the America within our reach: a country that leads the world in educating its people; an America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs; a future where we're in control of our own energy; and our security and prosperity aren't so tied to unstable parts of the world. An economy built to last, where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded. We can do this. I know we can, because we've done it before.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics

Obama delivers a speech on the economy at Carnegie Mellon University

From our efforts to rescue the economy to health insurance reform to financial reform, most have sat on the sidelines and shouted from the bleachers.”

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Obama delivers remarks on innovation at Penn State University

Now, just like Americans do every day, government has a responsibility to live within its means. But we also have a responsibility to invest in those areas that are going to have the biggest impact. And in this century those areas are education and infrastructure and innovation.”

• Other issues:Economy, Science and Technology

Obama holds question and answer session with Senate Democrats

• Other issues:Government and Politics

Obama Delivers Remarks on Clean Energy and Technology

...innovators like you are creating the jobs that will foster our recovery and creating the technologies that will power our long-term prosperity.”

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