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 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 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 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 Health Care at N.H. Town Hall Meeting

We do think that systems like Medicare are very inefficient right now, but it has nothing to do at the moment with issues of benefits.”

• Other issues: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.”

• Other issues:Health Care

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.”

• Other issues: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.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama delivers remarks on passage of financial regulatory reform

Now, already, the Republican leader in the House has called for repeal of this reform. I would suggest that America can’t afford to go backwards, and I think that’s how most Americans feel as well. We can’t afford another financial crisis just as we’re digging out from the last one.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama Holds Town Hall in Albuquerque, N.M.

It's time for strong, reliable protections for our consumers.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama holds a news conference on his 2012 budget proposal

What we've done is we've taken a scalpel to the discretionary budget, rather than a machete.”

• Other issues:Economy, Foreign Policy, Government and Politics

Obama meets with Des Moines family

All right, we're going way afield now. I mean, the -- so let me focus on your question...”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama Obama urges Congress to 'finish its work' on reform bill

Democrats and Republicans agree that this is a serious problem for America. And we agree that if we do nothing – if we throw up our hands and walk away – it’s a problem that will only grow worse.”

• Other issues:Health Care

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.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama delivers a speech on the economy at Carnegie Mellon University

From our efforts to rescue the economy to health insurance reform to financial reform, most have sat on the sidelines and shouted from the bleachers.”

• Other issues:Economy

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 delivers remarks on comprehensive immigration reform

So, El Paso, the question is whether those in Congress who previously walked away in the name of enforcement are now ready to come back to the table and finish the work that we've started. (Applause.) We've got to put the politics aside. And if we do, I'm confident we can find common ground.”

• Other issues:Immigration

Obama is interviewed live on NBC Today Show

...I think everybody who looks at this says the single most important ingredient inside the classroom is the quality of the teacher. And there are terrific teachers out there.”

• Other issues:Education

Obama delivers remarks to the Business Council

But as Americans, and as a nation, we will not be terrorized. We will not cower in fear. We will not be intimidated.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama makes remarks at Interior Department on health-care bill

This year, tens of thousands of uninsured Americans with a preexisting condition and parents whose children have a preexisting condition will finally be able to purchase the coverage they need.”

• Other issues:Health Care