Barack Obama: “This represents the biggest deficit reduction plan since the 1990s.”

I think when you understand the complexities of America and the contradictions of America, I don’t think it makes you love it less. I think it makes you love it more.

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 shows me somebody who’s not focused on the American people and the job they’re supposed to do.

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.