It is clear that we cannot continue on this course.
We believe this fills a space which, very importantly, we can do by our own authority.
We stand to lose everything we've worked for years to build in the matter of months.
Starting to save is just the first step towards a secure retirement.
I believe this is the defining challenge of our time.
The greatest nation on earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next.
It is time to turn the page on an era of reckless lending and taxpayer bailouts.
No one who works full-time should have to raise their family in poverty.
This is a defiant, a determined president who has seen a lot of inaction up on Capitol Hill in the minds of people here ...
I won't give up.
I'm eager to work with all of you. But America does not stand still and neither will I.