 The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. 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. Americans deserve better.
Barack Hussein Obama
.... as a Senator, March 2006, he voted against raising the debt ceiling.
I do think, at a certain point you've made enough money
Barack Hussein Obama
"[Bypassing the filibuster via reconciliation] would change the character of the Senate forever ... you would essentially have still two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian, absolute power on either side, and that's just not what the Founders intended."
Barack Hussein Obama
Investors.com via RealClearPolitics.com about an Obama quote from 4-25-2005
I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
Barack Hussein Obama
So who the hell is stopping you,?
One thing I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done . . . that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people. . . . I think the assumption was, if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on the, you know, this provision, or that law, or are we making a good, rational decision here, that people will get it
Barack Hussein Obama
After giving 158 interviews and 411 speeches in his first year.
I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
It's clear we are on the precipice of an achievement that's eluded Congresses, presidents for generations -- an achievement that will touch the lives of nearly every American.
Barack Hussein Obama
Obama's Freudian Slip
I want to give a shout out...
Barack Hussein Obama
before reading a scripted statement on the Malik Nidal Hasan massacre
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