Too many middle class people are working harder for less, and too many people in America are still unemployed.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will no longer be great.

The reason this deal is working for you is everybody is important, everybody counts, and people work together.

Nobody's thinking about their dignity or their potential.

I hope that it works out.

Our vision of the good society depends as much on a thriving private sector as anything else.

For the first time since Harry Truman was President, the deficit will go down for 3 years in a row.

Those are the kinds of things that we are doing.

I believe that most people want something that will elevate them and bring them together with different people.

We have to restore confidence in people that if they do acquire the skills they need and help their countries move forward, they'll be rewarded and not punished.

We are going to do our dead-level best this year to finally join the ranks of every other advanced nation in the world and give our American families health care security that is always there.

I'm a Democrat by heritage, instinct, and conviction.

Vice Admiral Smith possesses a thorough understanding of NATO structure and the requirements of the European theater of Operations.

I know your accomplishments in office will outlast any interest in the private matters that have arisen from your prior law practice.

I have no reason to believe he wasn't.

Health care is a fundamental right and every American ought to have it.

What you're doing here is what America ought to be doing: getting people together, getting things done, building human dignity.

I am convinced that we can go into the next century as the greatest country in the world.