We can do it, but we can only do it together.

By the authority vested in me as President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America by Section 301c of Title 37 of the United States Code.

I assure you that the Administration will not relax one bit in our continued pursuit of spending cuts.

I will—without reservation—do what has to be done to control spending.

Enactment of the pending Conference Report on revenue and reconciliation is a price worth paying for lower interest rates, economic recovery, and more jobs.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, and to terminate the establishing authorities for committees that are inactive or no longer necessary, it is hereby ordered as…

This tax bill is not, as it has so often been mislabeled, the biggest tax increase in history.

I still believe in the combination: first of all, continued reduction in spending; at the same time, that—for the economy's sake and to get it rolling again—that we must also, as we can, reduce the percentage that government is taking in…

I don't bear grudges or anything.

I think it is, pretty much, an election-year reaction.

I think the issue is so clear cut that when the facts are explained, how they can continue resistance to this when we have protected entirely the tax cuts passed last year.

I still believe that this country has an obligation to pursue the peace process that was started in Camp David.