Barack Obama

“ No American should spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. And I’ll use the savings that we get from ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to put our people back to work doing some nation-building here at home, repairing our roads and our bridges and our schools; extending broadband lines into rural communities; making sure that when our veterans come home, that we are hiring them and they are getting the same kinds of opportunities that they deserve, because they shouldn’t have to fight for a job when they come home after fighting for America. ”

“ And if you’re willing to roll up your sleeves with me, if you're willing to work with me and knock some doors with me, make some phone calls with me, we're going to win Colorado again. We're going to win this election. We're going to finish what we started. We'll remind the world why the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. ”

“ That no matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, no matter who you love: here in America, you can make it if you try.
Colorado, we have been through some tough years. But the American people are always tougher. We always bounce back, because we pull together, because we look after one another. We don't turn back. We go forward. We don't leave anybody behind; we pull them up with us. In America, our destiny is not written for us. ”

“ It turns out it's not a five-point plan Governor Romney has got. It's a one-point plan. Folks at the very top get to play by their own rules: pay lower tax rates than you do, outsource more jobs, let Wall Street run wild. And if this plan sounds familiar, it's because we tried it. We tried it in the decade before I took office and it led to falling incomes, and record deficits, and the slowest job growth in half a century, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. And we've been working for four years to clean up this mess that these policies left behind. ”

“ He's hoping you won't remember that his economic plan is more likely to create jobs in China than here in the United States, because it rewards companies that move jobs and profits overseas. He's hoping you won't remember that he wants to give millionaires and billionaires a $250,000 tax cut, because the only way he can pay for it is by raising the deficit or by raising your taxes. ”

“ It's up to young people to make sure that they continue to have opportunities in the future to go to college, to get a good job. It’s up to the not-so-young people to choose what -- including me -- to choose what we leave behind for future generations. ”

“ We can make you well. There’s a cure, Colorado, as long as you vote. There’s a cure. Now, we joke about Romnesia, but all this speaks to something that is essential to your choice, and that is trust. When you choose a President, you don’t know what is going to come up. ”

“ My plan will actually cut the deficit, unlike Governor Romney’s. It will actually cut the deficit by four-trillion dollars over the next ten years, but we’re going to do it in a balanced way. We’ll cut out programs that don’t work, but we also need to make sure that the wealthy are paying a little bit more so we can afford to invest in technology and research that will keep new jobs and businesses coming to America. ”

“ After losing nine-million jobs in the Great Recession, our businesses have now added more than five-million new jobs over the past two and a half years. Manufacturing is coming back to our shores. The unemployment rate has fallen. Home values and home sales are rising. ”

“ I promised to repeal Don’t ask, don’t tell, and today you can’t be kicked out of the military because of who you are and who you love. I bet on American workers and American ingenuity, and we saved a dying auto industry that’s back on top of the world. ”

“ And that’s why I’m running for a second term as President of the United States. ”

“ I said we’d refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and now we’ve got a new tower rising above the New York skyline, and al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat; ”