We shouldn't make it harder to work and support a family.

I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff...

When an emergency struck, the young people we honor today didn't wait, they acted.

Today we honor things that matter more, the potential of the human heart and the courage of even the very young.

Of every $10 of deficit reduction, half of it is in spending cuts.

I want to thank you for watching this program tonight and for your concern for those who have been victimized by this awful flood.

The earned-income tax credit can help them do that.

The Young American Medal for Service and the Young American Medal for Bravery are awarded to a young person whose deeds, in a very real way, represent the best our Nation can offer.

It is an elemental, powerful, and profound principle.

This is about how the low-interest rates, deficit reduction, the business incentives and, most important today, the earned-income tax credit will affect the real lives of real people.

At a time when we hear too much about self-interest and not enough about what each of us can do to advance the common good of all Americans, seven young people here being honored, with their families, are role models for all the rest of us.

Your country is for you.

The medals we award today honor special acts.

It is a great honor to have these fine young people, their families, friends, and supporters in the White House today.

I was very moved by it.

It is time we acted to support those people.

We had such a law in my State, and we tried to use it.

We are spending more and more of taxpayers' money just to pay interest on the debt.