“I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits —either now or in the future, I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period.”
"If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period."
"If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan."
“You’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making.”
“In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year.”
“Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.”
“[W]hatever ideas exist in terms of bending the cost curve and starting to reduce costs for families, businesses, and government, those elements are in this bill.”
“I will protect Medicare.”
“I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American.”
“So this law means more choice, more competition, lower costs for millions of Americans.”
“Governor Romney,I'm glad that you recognize that Al Qaida is a threat,because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not Al Qaida; you said Russia,in the 1980s,they're now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because,you know,the Cold War's been over for 20 years.” Barack Obama, October 22, 2012
President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.
President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir
“If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal.”
“We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region that that's a red line for us and that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front or the use of chemical weapons.” Barack Obama, August 21, 2012
“if you’ve been successful,you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think,well,it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something: there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful,somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business,you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Barack Obama, July 13, 2012
“I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over,” Obama said in a 2007
“[T]here’s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border—a sense that what’s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on before,” then-Senator Obama wrote in his 2006 autobiography,“The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
”Not all these fears are irrational,”
“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century,” Obama noted. “If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole —especially by keeping our workforce young,in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan—it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”
“Native-born Americans suspect that it is they,and not the immigrant,who are being forced to adapt” to social changes caused by migration."
“And if I’m honest with myself,I must admit that I’m not entirely immune to such nativist sentiments,” Obama wrote. “When I see Mexican flags waved at pro-immigration demonstrations,I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car,I feel a certain frustration."
" Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq -- and we did. I said we’d wind down the war in Afghanistan -- and we are. And while a new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.”
“We’ve got choices about war and peace,” Obama said. “I ended the war in Iraq, as I promised. We are transitioning out of Afghanistan. We have gone after the terrorists who actually attacked us 9/11 and decimated al Qaeda.”
“We’ve decimated al Qaeda’s top leadership in the border regions around Pakistan, but in Yemen, in Libya, in other of these places – increasingly in places like Syria – what you see is these elements that don’t have the same capacity that a bin Laden or core al Qaeda had, but can still cause a lot of damage, and we’ve got to make sure that we remain vigilant and are focused on preventing them from doing us any harm.”
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