This month, we honor the health-care professionals, researchers, and heart health ambassadors who save lives and spare suffering.

During American Heart Month, we rededicate ourselves to fighting this disease by improving our own heart-healthy habits.

Each February, we recognize African American History Month as a moment to reflect upon how far we have come as a Nation, and what challenges remain.

It's time to hold Washington to the same standards families and businesses hold themselves.

We are heirs to their extraordinary progress.

Moving from recession to recovery, and ultimately to prosperity, remains at the heart of my Administration's efforts.

Let us add our own chapter, full of progress and ambition, so that our children's children will know that we, too, did our part to erase an unjust past and build a brighter future.

We've been there before, there's a lot more of space to explore.

Should the Congress accept the President's budget proposal, it would be the lowest, single-year funding level for the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act since it was enacted in 1996.

It's time their Government did the same.

This is a sign of progress.

We can't have a serious discussion and take meaningful action to create jobs and control our deficit if politicians just do what's necessary to win the next election instead of what's best for the next generation.

Small businesses have powered our economy in the past.

As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become more efficient.

Today, we've stopped the flood of job losses, we've stabilized the financial system, and we can safely say that we've avoided that looming depression.

I want us to have a constructive debate.

I just want to point out, and this brings me to the second problem, when we made a very modest proposal as part of our package, our health care reform package, to eliminate the subsidies going to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage…

We have a track record of working together.