Small businesses have powered our economy in the past.

Creating jobs has to be our number-one priority in 2010.

A job that pays the bills.

Let's deliver on the promise of health insurance reforms that will make our people healthier, our economy stronger, and our future more secure.

We remain committed to comprehensive legislation that will create millions of new American jobs.

We must do all we can to support our Nation's entrepreneurs.

The CBO has said that this is a deficit reduction, not a deficit increase.

I urged these institutions here today to go back and take a third and fourth look about how they are operating when it comes to small-business and medium-sized business lending.

We expect an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy.

We can't afford to let the same phony arguments and bad habits of Washington kill financial reform.

Some of it was the result of an era of easy credit, when millions of Americans borrowed beyond their means.

The goal has been to advance America's interests, to strengthen our economy at home, and to make ourselves a continuing force for good in the world.

My commitment to you, the American people, is that I will focus every single day on how we can get people back to work.

Trends don't buy the groceries.

I ran for President to help hard-working families succeed and to stand up for the embattled middle class.

I'm determined to do everything I can to accelerate our progress so we're actually adding jobs again.

I think everybody agrees that expanding our exports has to be a priority.

The single most important thing we could do right now for deficit reduction is to spark strong economic growth.