Barack Obama: “I've also pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our deficit over the next decade and I mean it.”

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

It was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.