SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Readout on the President’s Meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi President Obama met with the Chinese Foreign Minister today in the Oval Office. Prior to the meeting, the Foreign Minister met with National Security Advisor Jones and also met yesterday at the State Department with Secretary of State Clinton. During today’s meeting, President Obama and ...
Statement by the President on the Economy and the Oil Spill in the Gulf of MexicoRose Garden11:26 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. Before I make a statement on the economy, I just want to offer an update on the ongoing federal response to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. I have dispatched（派遣） the Secretaries of Interior and Homeland Security...
In his first interview with an Arab television station, President Barack Obama offered a bold change to America’s relations with the Muslim world. "My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives," President Obama told Al Arab...
At a time when the issue of stem cell research seemed to be fading from the national consciousness, a number of advocates stepped forward – as the President described this morning — to ensure it wasn’t forgotten. None were more passionate than Christopher and Dana Reeve. We asked Peter Wilderotter, who is the current President and CEO of the Reeves Foundati...
Weekly Address: Progress with the G-20 in Pittsburgh This week, I joined leaders from around the world at the United Nations and the G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh. Today, I can report on what we achieved—a new commitment to meet common challenges, and real progress in advancing America’s national security and economic prosperity. As I said at the U.N., over ...
In the weekly address, President Barack Obama addressed the latest economic news and urged the passing of an America Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. He also announced that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is preparing a new strategy for reviving our financial system — which will not only ensure that CEOs aren’t abusing taxpayer dollars, but also get credit flo...
Hi, everybody. On Thursday, I visited a steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio to talk about what we’re doing to rebuild our economy on a new foundation for stronger, more durable economic growth. One area where we’ve made great progress is American energy. After years of talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, we are actually poised to control our own energy ...
"This moment of peril must be turned to one of progress," President Barack Obama said this morning, as he signed his first two Presidential Memoranda aimed at getting us on the path to energy independence.In what he called "a down payment on a broader and sustained effort to reduce our dependence on foreign oil," President Obama directed the Department of...
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. This morning, I sent a budget to Congress for the coming year. It’s a budget that reflects the serious challenges facing the country. We’re at war. Our economy has lost 7 million jobs over the last two years. And our government is deeply in debt after what can only be described as a decade of profligacy（放荡，挥霍） . The ...
"Shameful." That was the President’s response last week to the news that Wall Street had doled out $18 billion in bonuses, even after the government had propped up many of the Street’s most prominent firms. Today, he and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner took action by imposing new restrictions on executive compensation at firms taking money from the gove...
We all know the past few years have been difficult for this country. After the worst recession of our lifetimes, it will take longer than any of us would like for the economy to fully recover. But there are plenty of steps we can take to speed up the recovery. There are things we can do – right now – to help create jobs and restore some of the financial security ...
Well, we just finished up a Cabinet meeting with obviously a very wide-ranging agenda. One of the first things we talked about was the progress that we’re making in terms of（依据，按照） growing the economy again. We’ve now seen five straight months of job growth and economic growth. Over half a million private sector（私营部门） jobs have been created since the...
A More Perfect Union 塑造一个更加完美的合众国 ( 2008年3月18日，宾夕法尼亚州费城) A MORE PERFECT UNION March 18, 2008 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”Two hundred and twenty-one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s...
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning, everybody. In times of great challenge in our country and around the world, Americans have always come together to lend a hand帮助 and to serve others and to do what’s right. That’s what the American people have been doing in recent days with their extraordinary generosity慷慨，大方 and contributions to the Haitian people. At this m...
President Obama is holding his first press conference. You can watch it streaming at WhiteHouse.gov/live. He opened up with some brief remarks, which you can read in full (as prepared for delivery) below. OPENING REMARKS OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA — AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERYFirst Presidential Press ConferenceEast Room, The White HouseMonday, February 9th, 2009 Good eve...
THE PRESIDENT: That’s right. There are no better workers than American workers. (Applause.) I’ll put my money on you any day of the week. And when the naysayers（否定者，拒绝者） said, well, you can’t save the auto industry, just go ahead and let hundreds of thousands of jobs vanish, we said we’re going to stand by those workers. If the management is ...
2:08 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Please be seated. Thank you for coming, and Happy New Year. Laura and I thank all of our distinguished guests, starting with members of my Cabinet — Secretary Kempthorne, Secretary Gutierrez, Administrator Johnson. Admiral, thank you for coming today. We’re proud you’re here. Mr. Secretary, thank you for being he...
Starting this Thursday, the eyes and hearts of the world will all be turned to Brazil. Thirty-two national teams representing the best in football in the world will all be vying for the World Cup, the event that, every four years, makes us all football fans. This is the time for football’s largest international festival, but it is also time for us to celebrate, thanks ...
On Wednesday, the President honored math and science educators at the White House and announced several new partnerships and programs in a continuation of the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, an initiative designed to energize and excite America’s students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In November, Steven Harris and Brian Horte...
In the spirit of transparency, Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, asked us to pass along this update on the President’s Executive Order on Ethics: The White House periodically gets questions about the President’s Executive Order on Ethics and how it is being implemented. In addition to responding to these questions inpi...