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Barack Obama
stated on February 10, 2012 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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."

By Robert Farley • February 8, 2011

Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a speech to Congress:

Preventive care "saves money."

By Catharine Richert • September 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2009 in 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 in 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 in 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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