Barack Obama actually said...

We will go through our federal budget -- page by page, line by line -- eliminating those programs we don't need, and insisting that those we...

I'm confident that we will rise to meet this challenge.

I don't think that there's any question that we have a mandate to move the country in a new direction and not continue the same old practice...

There are just going to be some programs that simply don't work and we've got to eliminate.