Barack Obama

I'm confident that Dennis Blair and Leon Panetta are the right leaders to advance the work of our intelligence communities.

This is the moment to act and to act without delay.

Any health care reform plan must make sure every American has preventative care that prevents disease and disability.

Studies have shown that for every $1 spent on prevention we could net a return of $5.60 in health care costs.

America cannot afford more of the same when it comes to health care in this country.

It is unacceptable that in a nation of approximately 300 million people, nearly one in six Americans don't have health insurance.

By some measures, nearly one third of the care Americans receive is at best inadequate, and at worst harmful.

Update the way we get our electricity by starting to build a new Smart Grid that will save us money, protect our power sources from blackout or attack, and deliver clean, alternative forms of energy to every corner of our nation.

Perhaps more than anyone else, the Native American community faces huge challenges that have been ignored by Washington for too long. It is time to empower Native Americans in the development of the national policy agenda.

Quickly moving to establish a national greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal that contributes to global climate stabilization is critically important.

I do think that the FDIC and Sheila Bair have had the sense of urgency about the problem that I want to see.

I will fix the banks, and I will get credit flowing again, and I will make everything else second and subordinate until that job is honorably done.

We face the risk that Government borrowing will crowd out private borrowing in the future and weaken growth.

Under the President's budget, non-defense discretionary spending would average 3.6 percent of GDP over the next decade.

It defies both our basic values and economic common sense to deny any child in America the quality education they need to compete in the global economy.

The budget makes a significant commitment to our energy security that will strengthen our economy, our environment, and our national security.

Health care reform is a moral imperative, an economic imperative, and a fiscal imperative for our Nation.

We will bring the full force of the Federal Government to ensure that the major banks have enough confidence and resources to lend.

We have launched a very powerful program to help jump-start lending to small businesses.

We need to act to get the broader credit markets working again.

The combined effect of these investments and tax measures will be to save or create between 3 and 4 million jobs.

These challenges require extraordinary actions.

We start this Congress and this administration with a $1.3 trillion budget deficit.

This crisis has helped cause a dramatic deterioration in our fiscal position.

Yucca Mountain is not a workable option and that we will begin a thoughtful dialog on a better solution for our nuclear waste storage needs.