My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.