We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get a hundred percent of people health care while I was president. We didn't quite achieve that, but we were able to get 20 million people health care who didn't have it before. And obviously some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there's still a significant debate taking place in the United States. For those 20 million people, their lives have been better.
Barack Obama[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.
Barack ObamaIf some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.
Barack ObamaGranting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
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