Democracy is hard work.

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

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.

I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.