Few Obama quotes for comparison.
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. |
