The time has come to act.

I mean, look at the system, we're the only country, the only advanced country that does what we do.

The tax burden is the way it is because we seek to reverse what happened in the 1980's, where taxes went up on the middle class and down on the wealthiest Americans.

We can begin to establish high-performance workplaces as the models, the rules, if you will, for our country's new economy.

More than any other one which has been presented by any party, it reduces the deficit in a way that is fair to all the American people.

Let's get on with it.

Those are the things we're going to focus on now.

This gridlock thing is amazing.

Look at California if you want to see the consequences of 6 long years of cutting the defense budget.

Until we find a way to reward the working poor and to move people from welfare to work, our economic recovery is going to be limited.

Under any conceivable deficit reduction plan, including mine, you can bring the deficit down for 5 years and then it starts to go up again in the sixth year.

The Government's relationship to the private sector are changing the nature of that relationship.

Absolutely not.

If we don't do [NAFTA], anybody who wants to shut a plant down in America and move it to Mexico for lower wages can do that anyway.

We cannot continue to spend 30 percent more than any other country in the world of our income on health care.

The most precious asset any nation has is the people who live there.

Every child born in this country should be able to grow up to be successful.

Our responsibility, it seems to me, as I said in my speech, is to create the most favorable economic conditions.