President Obama: U.S. Must Support Ebola Aid Workers Doing 'God's Work'

President Barack Obama addressed the ongoing Ebola crisis on Tuesday, saying that the U.S. must continue to support aid workers going to Ebola-ridden countries to do "God's work."

While speaking on the White House's South Lawn, the president said the U.S. must continue to respect and support aid workers returning from West Africa after treating Ebola patients. The president's speech comes after some states, including New Jersey, have begun mandatory quarantines for aid workers returning from West Africa.

"America, in the end is not defined by fear. That's not who we are. America is defined by possibility, and when we see a problem and we see a challenge, then we fix it," the president said Tuesday before traveling to Milwaukee.

"We want to make sure that we understand that they are doing God's work over there, and they're doing that to keep us safe."

The POTUS warned that it's important that states approach Ebola quarantines with "facts" and "science" so as to not "discourage our health care workers from going to the front lines and dealing with this in an effective way."

The president's speech comes after a doctor in New York City was quarantined after testing positive for Ebola last week. The doctor had recently been helping Ebola patients in West Africa. Following the incident, states like New York and New Jersey began mandatory quarantines for some aid workers returning from West Africa.

One of the aid workers forced into the mandatory quarantine in New Jersey was Kaci Hickox, who flew into Newark International Airport after working in Sierra Leone. She blasted New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie for keeping her in quarantine even though she was asymptomatic, and eventually hired a lawyer, saying her "basic human rights" had been violated.

Christie announced this week that Hickox would be allowed to complete her mandatory 21-day quarantine at her home in Maine.