Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House.