Follow The Trend Lines, Not The Headlines.

I Haven't Eaten At A Mcdonald's Since I Became President.

We Can't Be So Fixated On Our Desire To Preserve The Rights Of Ordinary Americans.

I Want Our Nation To Take Responsibility To Make Sure That Every Single Child Can Look Out The Window In The Morning And See A Whole Community Getting Up And Going To Work. We Want These Young People To Know The Thrill Of The First Paycheck, The Challenge Of Starting That First Business, The Pride In Following In A Parent's Footsteps.

If You Look At What's Happened To The Stock Market, If You Look At What's Happened To Housing Values, If You Look At What's Happened To Bank Loan Portfolios Because The Value Of Their Other Assets That They've Already Issued Loans Against Were Going Down, There Was A Pretty Good Argument For Trying To Pass Something At About This Level Of Investment With The Divisions As They Were - Unemployment, Food Stamps, And Tax Cuts, Aid To Education And Healthcare, And Job Creation.

Rarely Have Americans Lived Through So Much Change, In So Many Ways, In So Short A Time. Quietly, But With Gathering Force, The Ground Has Shifted Beneath Our Feet As We Have Moved Into An Information Age, A Global Economy, A Truly New World.