I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem.
Barack ObamaThere are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.
Barack ObamaEvery single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. Itโs a pretty simple proposition.
Barack ObamaIt's my job as President and Congressโs job to maker sure that thereโs some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that weโve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery packageโฆ
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