President Obama hosts White House Latino Town Hall

President Obama hosts first White House Latino Town Hall meeting at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Office Building, May 8th, 2009. This is historic. This meeting was conducted entirely in Spanish.

THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Hola. (Applause.) Thank you. Please, everybody have a seat. (Applause.) Muchas gracias. Thank you very much. Please, everybody have a seat.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Viva Obama! (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: Now, I don't want to take up too much time. I just wanted to stop by and let you know how important I think this is.

Obviously, all of us are concerned about the health of our families and our children. And our experience with the H1N1 virus over the last couple of weeks is a sobering reminder of how vital it is that we all recognize we're all in this together. We're one country, we're one community. When one person gets sick, that has the potential of making us all sick. And when we help to make everybody well, one person well, then everybody has the potential to get well. We can’t be divided by communities. Full text.