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We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

Congress should get the job done.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

Most Americans want health insurance.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

There are lots of ways to work together.

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'

It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.

The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.