So lets agree right here, right now: No side issues. No drama. Pass the payroll tax cut without delay. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Weve got to make sure we reduce our deficit. Unfortunately Governor Romneys plan doesnt do it. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There has to be revenue in addition to cuts. Now, Governor Romney has ruled out revenue. He's ruled out revenue. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let me just finish their point, because you're looking for contrast. You know, when Governor Romney stood on a stage with other… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help… — 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
The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When you add up all the loopholes and deductions that upper-income individuals can...are currently taking advantage of, you take those all away,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That kind of approach, I believe, will not grow our economy, because the only way to pay for it without either burdening… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income… — 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
Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be… — 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
I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton tried the approach that I'm talking about. We created 23 million new jobs. We went from deficit to surplus. And… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The way we do it is $2.50 for every cut, we ask for $1 of additional revenue, paid for, as I indicated… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My tax plan will cut taxes for 95 percent of workers, because we need to put money back into the pockets of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need a tax code that truly helps working Americans trying to get a leg up in the new economy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The budget compromise should leave us freer to focus on creating new jobs, not creating new crises. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need to change our tax code so that people like me & an awful lot of Members of Congress, pay our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I dont believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay… — 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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