Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve 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 package…

That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.