Barack Obama

Like any cash-strapped family, we will work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don't.

If we do not take meaningful steps to rein in our debt, it could damage our markets, increase the cost of borrowing, and jeopardize our recovery, all of which would have an even worse effect on our job growth and family incomes.

This request will create clean energy jobs, expand the frontiers of science, reduce nuclear dangers, and help curb the carbon pollution that threatens our planet.

The nation that leads the world in creating new sources of clean energy will be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy.

The Nation that leads the world in creating new sources of clean energy will be the Nation that leads the 21st century economy.

It is very important for us to build up U.S. Marshals' capacity. That is something we want to do in the Federal budget . . . my expectation is that we will get support, bipartisan support, from Congress on this issue because it is so…

The gap that you refer to actually began in 2004, probably began even before then.

I am 100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future because broadening our capabilities in space will continue to serve our society in ways we can scarcely imagine, because exploration will once more inspire wonder in a new…

But every single one of them is a volunteer, as I was, and as Senator Bill Nelson was.

I strongly support Senator Hutchison's efforts to ensure that a review of space station requirements is conducted and an informed decision made.

He has chosen not to continue those operations, and so that decision--and the consequences that may follow from it, are, and will always be, his responsibility.

Now it deserves the same kind of up-or-down vote that was cast on welfare reform, that was cast on the Children's Health Insurance Program, that was -- that was used for COBRA health coverage for the unemployed and, by the way, for both…

They are waiting for us to lead. And, as long as I hold this office, I intend to provide that leadership. And so I ask Congress to finish... its work. And I look forward to signing this reform into law.

Now it deserves the same kind of up or down vote that was cast on welfare reform, that was cast on the children's health insurance program, that was used for COBRA health coverage for the unemployed and by the way, for both Bush tax cuts.

They are waiting for us to lead. And as long as I hold this office, I intend to provide that leadership. And so I ask Congress to finish its work and I look forward to signing this reform into law.

We agree on the need to reform our insurance markets.

This is not a decision that I've made lightly. It's one that Ken and I--as well as Carol Browner, my energy advisor, and others in my administration--looked at closely for more than a year. But the bottom line is this: Given our energy…

There will be those who strongly disagree with this decision, including those who say we should not open any new areas to drilling. But what I want to emphasize is that this announcement is part of a broader strategy that will move us from…

It is very important for us to build up U.S. Marshals' capacity. That is something we want to do in the Federal budget . . . my expectation is that we will get support, bipartisan support, from Congress on this issue because it is so…

So, Lamar, when you mentioned earlier that you said premiums go up, that's just not the case, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

I hope that this isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and criticizing each other.

So Lamar, when you mentioned earlier that you said premiums go up, that's just not the case according to the Congressional Budget Office.

What I'm hoping to accomplish today is for everybody to focus not just on where we differ but focus on where we agree.

Security does not exist when people do not have access to enough food, or clean water, or the medicine and shelter they need to survive.

Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together.