What Government Did Today

McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois 2:15 P.M. CDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary General.  Anders, I want to take this opportunity on behalf of all of us to thank you for your outstanding leadership over these past three years.  And I want to begin by welcoming each and every one of you to my hometown.  I hope everybody has enjoyed themselves.  I understand some took a architectural boat tour, some have run along the lakefront.  Chicago is a great place, and we look forward to having you back again.

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Remarks by the President at Opening NAC Meeting

McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois 11:57 A.M. CDT PRESIDENT OBAMA:  All right.

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Remarks by President Obama and President Karzai of Afghanistan After Bilateral Meeting

A year after the historic events across the Middle East and North Africa began to unfold, the aspirations of people of the region for freedom, human rights, democracy, job opportunities, empowerment and dignity are undiminished.  At the Camp David Summit, G-8 Leaders recognized the important progress that has been achieved in a number of countries undergoing transition and committed to maintaining their support for these transitions in four key priority areas: stabilization, job creation, participation/governance, and integration. Stabilization In response to transition countries’ request for support in promoting economic stabilization necessary to pursue reform, G-8 members will take the following actions: Assist transition countries in the region to stabilize their economies and pursue country-owned plans, by supporting external financing through the International Monetary Fund and bilateral assistance, as appropriate, to promote an economic environment conducive to strong, sound and sustainable economic growth

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Fact Sheet: G-8 Action on the Deauville Partnership with Arab Countries in Transition

Ronald Reagan Building Washington, D.C. 10:08 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you so much.  (Applause.)  Thank you, everybody.  Please have a seat.  Thank you.  Well, good morning, everybody.  Thank you, Catherine Bertini, and Dan Glickman and everyone at the Chicago Council.  We were originally going to convene, along with the G8, in Chicago.  But since we’re not doing this in my hometown, I wanted to bring a little bit of Chicago to Washington.  (Laughter.)  It is wonderful to see all of you.  It is great to see quite a few young people here as well.  And I want to acknowledge a good friend.  We were just talking backstage — he was my inspiration for singing at the Apollo — (laughter) — Bono is here, and it is good to see him.  (Applause.) Now, this weekend at the G8, we’ll be represented by many of the world's largest economies.  We face urgent challenges — creating jobs, addressing the situation in the eurozone, sustaining the global economic recovery.  But even as we deal with these issues, I felt it was also important, also critical to focus on the urgent challenge that confronts some 1 billion men, women and children around the world — the injustice of chronic hunger; the need for long-term food security.

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Remarks by the President at Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security

Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, North Carolina 10:44 A.M.

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Remarks by the First Lady at North Carolina A&T University Commencement

Rose Garden 11:13 A.M.

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Remarks by the President and the Vice President Honoring the Winners of the National Association of Police Organizations Top Cops Award

WASHINGTON, DC – Commerce Secretary John Bryson and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today announced the Administration’s National Tourism and Travel Strategy – delivering on President Obama’s call in January for a national strategy to promote domestic and international travel opportunities throughout the United States. The National Strategy is a blueprint for expanding travel to and within the U.S., laying out concrete steps to be taken in five key areas.  It sets out a goal of increasing American jobs by attracting and welcoming 100 million international visitors annually by the end of 2021, more than a 50 percent increase over the number expected this year.

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Administration Officials Announce National Strategy to Increase Travel and Tourism in the United States to 100 Million Visitors Annually by 2021

College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering State University of New York Albany, New York 1:24 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Hello, New York!  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you so much.  Thank you.  Everybody, please have a seat.  It is great to be back in Albany.  It is wonderful to be with all of you here today.  And I want to thank Governor Cuomo not only for the outstanding introduction, but also for the extraordinary leadership that he's showing here in the great state of New York. Please give him a big round of applause.  (Applause.)  He is doing outstanding work.

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Remarks by the President, Albany, NY

Private Residence McLean, Virginia   5:57 P.M. EDT   PRESIDENT CLINTON:  Hey!  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you very much.  (Applause.)  First of all, I want to thank mostly Dorothy for having us here.  (Laughter.)  Terry actually likes it when there are hundreds of people in his back yard.  (Laughter.)  And I'm delighted that their — four of their five children are here — Jack, Mary, Sally and Peter.  Dori, their other daughter, is off playing in a national tournament in lacrosse.  Jack plays rugby for the Naval Academy, where he is in his first year — and I'm very proud of him for his service he's doing.  (Applause.)   I love poor Terry McAuliffe.  He's so laid back and repressed.  (Laughter.)  He just can't express himself.  (Laughter.)  I worry about him.  But I tell you what, we had a hundred more like him we wouldn't lose as many elections — (laughter) — he is a — and I'm grateful.  (Applause.)   My job is to introduce the President.  I'm going to tell you a couple of things I hope you'll remember and share with others.  When you become President, your job is to explain where we are, say where you think we should go, have a strategy to get there, and execute it.  By that standard, Barack Obama deserves to be reelected President of the United States.  (Applause.)  And I'm going to tell you the only reason we're even meeting here.  I mean, this is crazy — he's got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids — (laughter) — which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids.  (Laughter.)   So let's be serious here.  When then-Senator Obama was running for President, he laid out a forward-looking plan to restore broad-based prosperity with a 21st century economy in the United States, to advance the national security of America, and to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries.  And if he had taken office in that world and implemented those plans in energy, education, health care and across the board — which he has done — we'd be roaring.    But then what happened?  September the 15th, 2008, we had a financial crash — only seven weeks before the election.  And it didn't bottom out till he he'd been President six months and before any of his policies had time to take effect.  If you go back 500 years, whenever a country's financial system collapses, it takes between 5 and 10 years to get back to full employment.  If you go back for the last 200 years, when buildings had been widely owned by individuals and companies, if there's a mortgage collapse it almost always takes 10 years.  He's beating the clock, not behind it.  Don't listen to those Republicans.  We are beating the clock.  (Applause.)   So if somebody says, well, but I don't feel all that great yet, or not everything is back yet, or it's still kind of slow yet, you just remind them we've gotten 4 million jobs since the recession bottomed out; the ones we lost in the crash have been restored.  Thanks to the stimulus which kept unemployment one and a half to two points lower than it would have been.  Thanks to his restructuring of the American automobile industry, which saved a million and a half jobs and created 84,000 more.  (Applause.)  Thanks to the astonishing agreement between labor and management and the environmental groups and the federal government to raise mileage standards on cars that will create 150,000 high-tech jobs and clean the environment for our future.  These are the things that have been done.

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Remarks by President Obama and Former President Clinton at a Campaign Event

New York University, Tishman Auditorium New York, New York 10:59 A.M.

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Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden on Foreign Policy at a Camapaign Event