Politics

Opportunity should be our watchword.

I want to thank the NGA and especially the Governors who have worked with us throughout this process.

I treasure the partnership that I have had with so many of you.

There is no conceivable excuse to delay this action one more day.

I am very pleased to be naming Charles Masten, an experienced investigator with a thorough understanding of the Department of Labor, to this position.

This was a very important appointment to me.

This was clearly not an easy fight.

Today we come here for more than a bill signing.

I am pleased today to name these two experienced individuals to our team at OSTP.

This is good for America.

The political fog that has surrounded this town for so long is at long last lifting.

We're putting business-as-usual out of business in Washington.

I am also very pleased that Marcia Hale has agreed to take on this new responsibility.

This is a very, very important beginning.

Tonight, because of the bold action taken by courageous men and women in the House and the Senate, that dream will not be deferred but rather be fulfilled.

We are seizing control of our economic destiny.

It will get straightened out if it passes, because once the bill passes, reality takes over and the rhetoric shrinks.

Those are the facts.