In Obama's Words

Obama delivers closing remarks at White House jobs summit

We can create new jobs, spur enormous amounts of business opportunities for the clean tech sector, but we're also laying the groundwork for energy independence, and we also... set up the prospect that it would pay for itself from ultimate energy savings.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama holds a town hall with students; the First Lady also attends

...I am absolutely convinced that the country that has the biggest stake in Pakistan's success is India.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy

Obama meets with CEOs

So, just to summarize, just around this table you're seeing billions of dollars in orders from U.S. companies, tens of thousands of jobs being supported. We're a potential that has barely been scratched. And this is, I think, why folks back home in the United States need to embrace the possible partnership with India...”

• Other issues:Economy, Foreign Policy

Obama hosts townhall with young African leaders

I'll be honest with you -- I'm heartbroken when I see what's happened in Zimbabwe. I think Mugabe is an example of a leader who came in as a liberation fighter and -- I'm just going to be very blunt -- I do not see him serving his people well.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy, Social Issues

Obama participates in an APEC CEO business summit in Honolulu, Hawaii

he United States is a Pacific power and we are here to stay. And one of the messages that Secretary Clinton, Secretary Panetta have been delivering, but I am personally here to deliver over the next week, is that there's no region in the world that we consider more vital than the Asia Pacific region, and we want, on a whole range of issues, to be working with our partner countries around the Pacific Rim in order to enhance job growth, economic growth, prosperity and security for all of us.”

• Other issues:Economy, Foreign Policy

Obama delivers remarks at the 2011 National Council of La Raza annual conference

One in six new small business owners are immigrants. These are job creators who came here to seek opportunity and now seek to share opportunity. This country has always been made stronger by our immigrants. That's what makes America special. We attract talented, dynamic optimistic people who are continually refreshing our economy and our spirit. And you can see that in urban areas all across the country. Where communities that may have been hollowed out when manufacturing left or were having problems because of an aging population, suddenly you see an influx of immigration and you see streets that were full of boarded up building suddenly they're vibrant with life once again and it's immigrant populations who are providing that energy and that drive.”

• Other issues:Social Issues

Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul

I want to focus on three areas in which I think we can make some progress: advancing dialogue between our two countries, but also advancing dialogue between the United States and the Muslim world; extending opportunity in education and in social welfare; and then also reaching out to young people as our best hope for peaceful, prosperous futures in both Turkey and in the United States.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy

Obama delivers remarks at a campaign fundraiser in Washington

It's fair to say there's been a bit of talk about women and women's issues so far this year. And I've said before, I want to repeat, I think it's been oversimplified. Women are not an interest group. Women shouldn't be treated that way. Women are half this country and half of its workforce. You're 80 percent of my household, if you count my mother-in-law -- and I always count my mother-in-law.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics

Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Gillard of Australia

I am just grateful to have this opportunity to speak with the Prime Minister. I've extended an invitation to her to visit the United States sometime early next year, and we'll find a date, and hopefully we can build on some of the discussions that we've already had to further enhance our bilateral cooperation.”

• Other issues:Economy, Foreign Policy

Obama holds a news conference

I can tell you that, you know, some election nights are more fun than others. Some are exhilarating, some are humbling.”

Obama meets with Fairfax family and delivers remarks on the economy

The body politic is like an individual in the sense that if they go through a really bad accident and you're in a cast and got a little whiplashed and bruised and battered, it takes some time to recover. And that's what happened to our economy. We went through a really bad accident.”

Obama, Biden Address Group of Mayors

Now, rebuilding our economies and renewing our cities is going to require a true partnership between mayors and the White House, and that partnership has to begin right now.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics

Obama Addresses the U.N. General Assembly

The United Nations can either with a place where we bicker about outdated grievances or forge common ground, a place where we focus on what drives us apart or what brings us together, a place where we indulge tyranny or a source of moral authority.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy

Obama Delivers Remarks to Turkish Parliament

Turkey draws strength from both the successes of the past, and from the efforts of each generation of Turks that makes new progress for your people.”

• Other issues:Economy, Foreign Policy

Obama Holds Town Hall in Strasbourg, France

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy, Government and Politics

Obama and President Carlos Mauricio Funes of El Salvador hold joint news conference in San Salvador

Today, we're also launching a new effort to confront the narco- traffickers and gangs that have caused so much violence in all of our countries, and especially here in Central America. Our two nations already cooperate very closely in the fight against these criminals. As I said in my speech yesterday, the United States will do our part as the nations of Central America develop a new joint security strategy this spring. Under the Central American Citizen Security Partnership that I'm announcing today, we'll focus $200 million to support efforts here in the region, including addressing, as President Funes indicated, the social and economic forces that drive young people towards criminality. We'll help strengthen courts, civil society groups and institutions that uphold the rule of law. And we'll work closely with regional partners like Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Canada, and international partners like Spain, the European Union and the Inter- American Development Bank. This has to be a coordinated effort that draws on the unique expertise of different countries and institutions.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy

Obama and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera hold joint news conference in Santiago, Chile

The core principle that has to be upheld here is that when the entire international community almost unanimously says that there is a potential humanitarian crisis about to take place, that a leader who has lost his legitimacy decides to turn his military on his own people, that we can't simply stand by with empty words; that we have to take some sort of action.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy

Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff deliver remarks in Brasilia, Brazil

Today, the United States and Brazil are the hemisphere's two largest democracies and the two largest economies. Brazil is a regional leader promoting greater cooperation across the Americas and, increasingly, Brazil is a global leader, a world leader, going from a recipient of foreign aid to a donor nation, pointing the way to a world without nuclear weapons and being in the forefront of global efforts to confront climate change.”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy

Obama holds a news conference on his 2012 budget proposal

What we've done is we've taken a scalpel to the discretionary budget, rather than a machete.”

• Other issues:Economy, Foreign Policy, Government and Politics

Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao at joint press conference

"As we look to the future, what's needed, I believe, is a spirit of cooperation that is also friendly competition. In areas like those that I've just mentioned, we will cooperate, forging partnerships and making progress that neither nation can achieve alone."”

• Other issues:Foreign Policy