10/28/2011
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"We need to be carefully reducing the deficit in a way that protects the most vulnerable."
"That's why we need to return to normalcy when it comes to how we debate and decide these issues."
"Leon, from your first day in uniform until today, your dedicated service to America has spanned nearly 50 remarkable years."
"Sequestration is bad policy that was never intended to be implemented."