"When it comes to the budget, we..." - Quote by Barack Obama
When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.
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“The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.”
“If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.”
“We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.”
More on Budget
“The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.”
“We will never get anywhere with our finances till we pass a law saying...every time we appropriate something, we...pass another bill...stating where the money is coming from.”
“Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!”
More on Education
“Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.”
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
“Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.”