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 Delivers Remarks on Financial Regulation on Wall St.

Unfortunately, there are some in the financial industry who are misreading this moment. Instead of learning the lessons of Lehman and the crisis from which we're still recovering, they're choosing to ignore those lessons.”

• Other issues:Economy

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 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 on Regulatory Reform

..we're seeking to build an energy economy that creates new jobs and new businesses to free us from our dependence on foreign oil.”

• Other issues:Economy

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

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.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama delivers remarks on health-care reform in Missouri

The American people will be more secure with this reform. Our country will be stronger because of this reform. I don't know about the politics. But I know it is the right thing to do, and that's why I'm fighting so hard to get it done.”

• Other issues:Health Care

Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, hold town hall on high speed rail in Tampa, Fla.

I seem to remember coming to Tampa two weeks before the election and you know what I said? This is a quote, people can check -- I'm sure it was reported in the newspapers. I said, "Change never comes without a fight." That was true then. It's true now.”

• Other issues:Other

Obama Meets With British Prime Minister Brown

The special relationship between the United States and Great Britain is one that is not just important to me; it's important to the American people. And it is sustained by a common language, a common culture.”

• Other issues:Defense, Economy, Foreign Policy

Transcript: Obama, Biden, LaHood Deliver Remarks on High-Speed Rail

What we need, then, is a smart transportation system equal to the needs of the 21st century, a system that reduces travel times and increases mobility, a system that reduces congestion and boosts productivity, a system that reduces destructive emissions and creates jobs.”

• Other issues:Transportation

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'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 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 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 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 Delivers Remarks at Georgetown University

That's why the government has to step in and temporarily boost spending in order to stimulate demand. And that's exactly what we're doing right now.”

• Other issues:Economy

Obama holds a discussion on the economy

A lot of folks think it's an easy way to score political points is by trying to act as if there's a "them" and an "us," instead of just an "us."”

• Other issues:Economy

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 town hall meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa

So I want everybody here as parents, as community members, as church members, to know that if we're supporting our kids -- if we're supporting our kids and we are instilling the values of responsibility, and hard work, and excellence, and second place isn't good enough -- that's how America got built.”

• Other issues:Economy