If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.

America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.