I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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