Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

Government should be able to do a better job of that.

While there is certainly much to point to in terms of enforcement results over the past year, I am somewhat curious about what tangible and quantifiable results CMS has seen from the money and tools specifically given to them.

American citizens are sick and tired of stories about government's failure to act as a faithful steward of taxpayer dollars.

Fraud and waste in these programs hurt the American taxpayer no less than if someone lifted their wallets.

Taxpayers have reason to be angry about the levels of waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.

Waste and fraud in the Medicare system is not a minor issue.

But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and at a different time, but not here and not now. It's still about the economy, and…

You mentioned, as we look forward here, this is where Governor Romney starts the night.

He has to win Florida, he has to win Ohio.

Can he win independents? Can he make an appeal to narrow the gender gap? Increase his vote -- his support among Hispanics?

That's not a Democratic talking point. That's his positions. He's going to have to answer for those positions.

The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do, but it's not the best America can do.

People are hurting in America. And we know that something is wrong, terribly wrong, with the direction of the country.

We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice.

I'm not anti-immigrant. My father was born in Mexico.

My dad's dad was not a polygamist. My dad grew up in a family with a mom and a dad and a few brothers and one sister.

You know, I think this campaign is going to ultimately become about jobs, not dogs.