Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.

If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

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This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class.