"Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin."
"In the first round of repayments" from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."
"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."
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Pay-as-you-go "is the principle that helped transform large deficits into surpluses in the 1990s."
Washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough "makes a huge difference" in reducing transmission of the flu.
In Iraq, "civilian deaths, incidents of bombings, etc., remain very low relative to what was going on last year."
"Already we've identified $2 trillion in deficit reductions over the next decade."
"Venezuela is a country whose defense budget is probably 1/600th of the United States."
"More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States."
"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."
His proposed budget would "cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term."
"As a percentage of gross domestic product, we are reducing nondefense discretionary spending to its lowest level since the '60s, lower than it was under Reagan, lower than it was under Clinton, lower than it was under Bush, or both Bushes."
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
"The 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than a typical SUV sold in 2008."
"In eighth grade math, we’ve fallen to ninth place."
"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."
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