On behalf of the President and the people of the United States, we congratulate Uhuru Kenyatta on his election as president of Kenya.
And let me say again on behalf of the President, the people of the United States, we applaud your decisiveness and I might add the incredible competence and capability of your French military forces.
So we have been able to do this in part because of the outstanding leadership of President Nazarbayev and the people of Kazakhstan.
Senator DURBIN: Well, the interesting thing in the last few days, when the president finally understood the anger of the American people about his policies in Iraq, he started adopting the very premises and positions that we had on Iraq for so long.
In his speech, Sarkozy said he would govern in unity and fraternity and be the president of all of the French people.
There are people obviously that fall into the category of the program that the President outlined, but there are also millions and millions of people that aren't in danger of the foreclosure that the President has talked about, but still have the ability to take advantage of record low rates.
Immigration rights activists said the size of their movement would be on display at rallies around the country, including in the nation's capital, where National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Benjamin Jealous will deliver the keynote address.
The silent march was the idea of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's president, Benjamin Todd Jealous, who aimed to invoke a quiet protest down Fifth Avenue in 1917 that was meant to draw attention to race riots in East St.
The Electoral College was created in 1787 by a constitutional convention whose delegates were unconvinced that the election of the president could be entrusted to an unfiltered vote of the people, and were concerned about the division of power among the 13 states.
Look, this, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of the American people.
So the American -- so the President believes -- again, because he will put forward proposals that we believe should have bipartisan support, that faced with that imperative -- because everyone here is working for the American people, and the members of Congress, like the President, were elected by the American people -- will do the right thing and actually focus on the issues that matter, which -- the economy and jobs.
The overall outcome will depend upon the ability of the American people and the strong leadership of the president to meet all the challenges that we'll face in the days and years ahead.
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The denunciation this evening of his bid for full UN membership by his political rivals in the Islamist party Hamas suggests that they too may see that the Palestinian president may be tapping into the anger of his people.
The incident has put a spotlight on Secret Service agents traveling overseas, and has raised the possibility that the related probes may detail behavior well known to the small community of people charged with protecting the president and other top political figures.
Still, it makes the very idea of a president mixing with the people he is elected to serve seem like a well-intentioned but ultimately bittersweet illusion.
The President acknowledged the generosity of the Turkish people in hosting so many Syrians who have fled their homes in search of safety in Turkey.
Do not let this case and these charges, as flawed and as unfair as they are, destroy a fundamental underpinning of American democracy: the right of the people and no one else to select the president of the United States.
So with that context, I also think that what is owed to the American people, what the President believes is owed to the American people, is a clear description of what our goal is, because it affects essentially the cost to the American people very much.
Instead, the Center for Security Policy believes that the President must take counsel from others, more representative of the American people and their collective interests.
There, I'm sure, are those that are going to want to make this about the legislative process rather than the heart-wrenching stories of people like Natoma Canfield that the President discussed yesterday.
In fact, we heard today that another moderate cleric, a very senior moderate cleric in the southern city of Kandahar was gunned down, and this is apparently part of a tactic that's intended to warn people off from cooperating with the government of President Hamid Karzai, warn people off from cooperating with the United States and NATO troops who are here.
Flournoy closely mirrors the previous stated policies of the President, the Democratic Party, and the American people.
He answered that it would not be beneath the dignity of a former President to serve as a selectman of the town if the people should elect him.
So I think you heard the President talk about the people of Tunisia, and I think myself and the Secretary of State have said quite a bit on Egypt.
Earlier this month, the government led by the Pakistan People's Party of President Asif Ali Zardari stepped down following a full term, paving the way for general elections scheduled for May.
Because the American people supported those positions that the President took and in the end, Congress responded to the will of the American people.
Last week, the President -- some commentators were saying that the American people are very fuzzy on the details of what President Obama would do in terms of his economic agenda, not this year in an election year, but in the second term.
The departing government, led by the Pakistan People's Party of President Asif Ali Zardari, is now negotiating with the opposition to select a caretaker prime minister.
"This series of speeches by the president comes as a result of pressure from the American people and from Congress, " said Jack Reed, a senator from Rhode Island.
The American president had almost no response whatsoever to the people of that city, New Orleans.
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