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1. I think it’s very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They’re different issues.
2. We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
3. I can’t speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.
4. The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
5. I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
6. If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn’t cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.
7. It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
8. Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.
9. We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president’s budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years — a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
10. 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.
11. I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
12. Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
13. Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
14. I’ve been really privileged to work for two presidents — President Obama and President Clinton — who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.
15. I think that for the next short period of time, our №1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
16. 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.
17. 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?’
18. There are lots of ways to work together.
19. If you don’t define the problem you’ll never reach a painful solution.
20. The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.