In Obama's Words

Obama Delivers Remarks on Health Care Reform at the American Medical Association's Annual Meeting in Chicago

To say it as plainly as I can, health care is the single most important thing we can do for America's long-term fiscal health. That is a fact.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama's Press Conference

The most critical part of our strategy is to ensure that we do not return to an economic cycle of bubble and bust in this country.”

• Other issues:Economy, Government and Politics, Health Care

Obama Holds Town Hall on Health Care

We have to ask why places like Geisinger Health Systems in rural Pennsylvania or Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City, or communities like Green Bay, can offer high-quality care at costs well below average, but other places in America can't.”

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Obama holds Tele Town Hall meeting with seniors

Case in point: Beginning this week, tens of thousands of seniors who fall into the doughnut hole, like Fran, will receive a $250 rebate check to help you cover the cost of your prescriptions.”

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Obama speaks at House Republican retreat in Baltimore

Now, I understand some of you had some philosophical differences, perhaps, on just the concept of government spending, but as I recall, opposition was declared before we had a chance to actually meet and exchange ideas. And I saw that as a missed opportunity.”

• Other issues:Defense, Economy, Education, Foreign Policy, Government and Politics, Health Care, National Security and Intelligence

Obama holds a town hall on debt reduction in Annandale, Va.

We can't just tell the wealthiest among us, you don't have to do a thing. You just sit there and relax, and everybody else, we're going to solve this problem. Especially when we know that the only way to pay for these tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans is by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more for their health care, or cutting children out of Head Start, or doing away with health insurance for millions of Americans on Medicaid -- seniors in nursing homes, or poor children, or middle-class families who may have a disabled child, an autistic child.”

• Other issues:Economy, Government and Politics

Obama holds a town hall at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

The Republican budget that was put forward I would say is fairly radical. I wouldn't call it particularly courageous. I do think Mr. Ryan is sincere. I think he's a patriot. I think he wants to solve a real problem which is our long-term deficit. But I think that what he and the other Republicans in the House of Representatives also want to do is change our social compact in a pretty fundamental way.”

• Other issues:Economy, Government and Politics

Obama Delivers Remarks at ORGANIZING For America's National Health Care Forum

We've got more work to do, and we've got more promises to keep, and one of those promises is to achieve quality, affordable health care for every single American, and that is what we intend to do when Congress gets back into session.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics, Health Care

Obama delivers remarks on jobs and the economy and hosts discussion with workers

What government can do is create the conditions for companies to succeed.”

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Obama's Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care

We did not come here just to clean up crises, we came to build a future. I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.”

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Obama Delivers Remarks on Health-Care Reform at Town Hall

As we meet today, we're seeing double-digit rate increases on insurance premiums all over America.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics

Obama Speaks at Healthcare Summit

If we want to create jobs and rebuild our economy and get our federal budget under control, then we have to address the crushing costs of health care this year in this administration.”

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Obama holds teleconference on Affordable Care Act

I wanted to have this call because we've got a big day coming up -- the six-month anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act.”

• Other issues:Government and Politics, Health Care

Obama Holds Press Conference: Opens with Discussion on Health-Care, Iranian Elections and Energy Policy

I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is not interfering with Iran's affairs.”

• Other issues:Economy, Foreign Policy, Health Care

Obama Delivers Remarks on Health Care Costs

Rising health care costs are commanding more and more of the money that our companies could be using to innovate and to grow, making it harder for them to compete around the world.”

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Obama Takes Questions at Town Hall in Los Angeles

Because we know that enhancing America's competitiveness will require reducing our dependence on foreign oil and building a clean energy economy, this budget will spark the transformation we need to create green jobs and launch renewable energy companies right here in California.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama Addresses Joint Session of Congress

Now is the time to act boldly and wisely - to not only revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity.”

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Obama hosts an on-the-record conference call with college and university student-journalists

You can't suddenly just check in once every 10 years or so, on an exciting presidential election, and then not pay attention during big midterm elections where we've got a real big choice between Democrats and Republicans.”

• Other issues:Education

Obama holds a backyard discussion on health care reform and the Patient’s Bill of Rights

I mean, one of the toughest things about this health care debate was -- and sometimes I fault myself for not having been able to make the case more clearly to the country -- we spend, each of us who have health insurance, spend about a thousand dollars of our premiums on somebody else's care.”

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Obama delivers remarks on the economy in Columbis, Ohio

What we've tried to do whenever we are in a setting like this is to talk about the things that folks are going through day to day, because, look, I'll be honest with you, sometimes when you're in Washington you get caught up with the particular legislative battles or, you know, the media spin on certain issues, and sometimes you lose touch in terms of what folks are talking about around the kitchen table.”

• Other issues:Economy