"It is tragic in a society where our first constitutional duty is to establish justice and promote the general welfare."
"We have to ask the question: What works and what doesn't?"
"You can argue it, but you can't argue the fact that it hasn't worked."
"A carbon tax... would raise energy prices? It would raise gas prices."
"Over-regulating housing markets, hampering development, that causes rents to rise."
"Occupational licensing requirements... can be terribly hard and burdensome on the poor."
"The challenge for the Congress, which is the, I guess, the final arbiter of these issues, is to figure out how much we have to spend, what programs are most meaningful and beneficial to arrive at the ..."
"There is not a person on this dais that does not want to see every single person in this country lifted out of poverty to become productive in their lives, to make really, really good personal decisio..."
"But we can have it as a goal for this country to improve the family circumstance in such a way that we can help our young people get that education, make those decisions that break, if you will, that ..."
"The way we can continue to honor the commitment and the sacrifice and the hardships suffered by well over a million people who have died in defense of their country, the way we honor them is to make s..."
"the goal of this government should be to lift as many people out of poverty as possible."
"I don't think there is any greater need in this country right now for our long-term prospects than early childhood education."