"History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth."
"Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs."
"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
"In the first round of repayments" from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
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."
"2008 was the deadliest year of the war (in Afghanistan) for American forces."
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
"Teddy Roosevelt first called for (health care) reform nearly a century ago."
"We are making the largest investment in education in our nation’s history."
"Putting three Republicans in my Cabinet...is unprecedented."
Medicare spends "$15-billion a year on subsidies to insurance companies."
"98 percent of small businesses make less than $250,000" and would not see a tax increase under Barack Obama's plan.
Under Barack Obama's health care proposal, "if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it."
"Two years ago...I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them [subprime lending] is something we have to deal with."
"Senator McCain has been talking tough about earmarks, and that's good, but earmarks account for about $18-billion of our budget."
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