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Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2012 a briefing at the White House

"Preventive care … saves money, for families, for businesses, for government, for everybody."

By Louis Jacobson • February 10, 2012

Barack Obama
stated on November 1, 2011 a Fox television interview

"Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law."

By Molly Moorhead • November 3, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on October 25, 2011 a speech at a fundraiser

"I made a bunch of these promises during the campaign. ... We've got about 60 percent done in three years."

By Louis Jacobson • November 1, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 a speech in Austin, Texas

Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."

By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference

Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on February 22, 2011 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio

The president’s proposed budget "will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade to the lowest level since Dwight Eisenhower was president."

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference

Under the White House’s budget proposal, "we will not be adding more to the national debt" by the middle of the decade.

By Louis Jacobson • February 15, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview on Fox

Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected "the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional."

February 8, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview on Super Bowl Sunday

"I didn't raise taxes once."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 7, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on December 7, 2010 a press conference

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt started Social Security, "it only affected widows and orphans," and when Medicare began, "it was a small program."

By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2010 a town hall meeting

The Bush administration had been "giving (auto companies) billions of dollars and just asking nothing in return."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 22, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on April 21, 2010 an interview with CNBC's John Harwood

"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 22, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on January 27, 2010 his State of the Union address

"We've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."

By Catharine Richert • January 28, 2010

Barack Obama
stated on December 3, 2009 comments at the White House

When Obama was interviewed by American reporters in Asia, "Not one of them asked me about Asia. Not one of them asked me about the economy."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 7, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to a joint session of Congress

Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."

By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress

Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress

Preventive care "saves money."

By Catharine Richert • September 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2009 a forum with supporters

"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."

By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 a town hall meeting in New Hampshire

"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on August 5, 2009 a speech in Wakarusa, Ind.

Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."

By Louis Jacobson • August 5, 2009

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