"Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy" as Medicare Advantage.
Families are paying $900, on average, "in higher premiums because of uncompensated care."
"I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
"Walking in the door (Sonia Sotomayor) would bring more experience on the bench, and more varied experience on the bench, than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."
Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s."
"More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States."
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."
"Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four."
Obama "changed the rules in Washington. Gone are the free gifts from lobbyists. Gone are the fancy airplane rides for nothing."
Measures in Barack Obama's health plan could "lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year."
On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."
"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."
"There are so many loopholes ... our businesses pay effectively one of the lowest tax rates in the world."
"My plan offers three times as much tax relief to the middle class as Senator McCain's."
John McCain "has threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran."
Under Obama's tax plan, "95 percent of you will get a tax cut."
Henry Kissinger "said that we should meet with Iran — guess what — without precondition."
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