Too many people are working longer and harder just to stay even.

Together we can return to the time-honored American values of rewarding work, offering opportunity, demanding responsibility, and providing for our future as a community.

I'm going to cut the cost of our Government and get rid of windfalls for the wealthy before I ask any of the rest of the American people to make a contribution that is fair and essential to grow our economy.

I think the floor is now yours.

I want you to help me now figure out how to make those things that work the rule rather than the exception in American life.

The opportunities overwhelm the problems.

We're going to do what we can to marry rhetoric and action.

It is my intention to develop a plan for high quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

Now millions of our people will no longer have to choose between their jobs and their families.

I think it's very important for both of us.

I respect her legal talents, judicial record, and integrity.

This bill will strengthen our families, and I believe it will strengthen our businesses and our economy as well.

Better, but still too high: you know, at the trough of the recession, unemployment was 6.8 percent, lower than it is now.

We will not add or remove countries to or from the major drug producers list until we have our own confirmation that conditions in the country so warrant.

This sends a clearer signal than any words any of us could utter, that we have tried to give this Government back to the American people.

It will be modest because we don't want to be accused of ignoring the economic indicators, but it will be substantial.

Family medical leave has always had the support of a majority of Americans, from every part of the country, from every walk of life, from both political parties.

Canada is our largest trading partner.