They don't feel as if hard work and responsibility pay off anymore, and they don't see that hard work and responsibility reflected either in Washington or, all too often, on Wall Street.
Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success.
We believe in an America that rewards hard work and responsibility for all people.
Long before this recession, the values of hard work and responsibility that built this country had been given short shrift.
"In this context, we will work with responsibility and constructively with our partners to strengthen the... alliance to protect our common values, " he added.
We need a middle-class agenda that rewards hard work and responsibility.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Green Bay, WI
He will lay out his vision for a nation where hard work and responsibility are rewarded, where everyone does their fair share, and where everyone is held accountable for their actions.
As a civil rights attorney, an aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, a member of the Montgomery, Maryland County Council, Tom fought for a level playing field where hard work and responsibility are rewarded and working families can get ahead.
Our goal is to build an economy where hard work and responsibility are rewarded -- where you can find a good job, make a good wage, own your own home, maybe start a business, send your kids to college.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Helping Responsible Homeowners
And sometimes that means removing barriers to growth by lifting rules that place unnecessary burdens on business, but other times it means enacting common-sense safeguards like these -- like the Affordable Care Act -- to ensure our American belief that hard work and responsibility should be rewarded by a sense of security and fair play.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Health Reform at Families USA
So we're not going to rest until we rebuild an economy in which hard work and responsibility are rewarded, and businesses are hiring again, and wages are growing again, and the middle class can get its legs underneath it again. (Applause.) We will not rest until we build an economy that's ready for America's future.
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Some of you remember I stood right here with you two years ago when I was still a candidate for this office. (Applause.) And during that campaign, we talked about how, for years, the values of hard work and responsibility that had built this country had been given short shrift, and how it was slowly hollowing out our middle class.
In exchange, they just want to see that their hard work and their responsibility is rewarded.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Ensuring Fair Pay for In-Home Care Workers | The White House
This is a place where your hard work and your responsibility is supposed to pay off.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Tax Cuts for the Middle Class
Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character.
And those values of hard work and individual responsibility, but also looking out for one another, those are values that we all share.
And he is eager for everyone to succeed, and he wants to help build an economy that rewards hard work, rewards responsibility, that holds people accountable, and that insists that folks on -- in all the different parts of our economy and on all levels of the economic ladder play by the same rules.
But then I think making the American dream work is a shared responsibility between everybody.
We want an America where hard work is valued and responsibility is rewarded.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on the American Jobs Act in Scranton, Pennsylvania | The White House
It is my responsibility to work even when I cannot find work.
It is our responsibility as lawmakers and as educators to make this system work, but it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it.
As I said in Kansas last week, the defining issue of our time is whether we can build an economy where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Ensuring Fair Pay for In-Home Care Workers | The White House
We have people who are counting on us to make their lives just a little bit easier, to build an economy where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded.
The private market and individual responsibility always work best.
That should be our central goal as a country -- how we rebuild an economy where hard work pays off, responsibility is rewarded -- a nation where those values continue for generations to come.
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You remind me that this country is all about folks who work hard and where responsibility pays off, an America where anybody who puts in the effort and plays by the rules can get ahead.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on Appointing Richard Cordray
We do believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded, where everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share and everybody is playing by the same rules.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at Campaign Event in Madison, WI
But as a self-made entrepreneur, and the son of parents who came to America searching for and finding opportunity and success, I can attest to the truth and power of the amalgam of hard work, thrift, responsibility and advancement.
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"As the leaders of the world's largest economies, we have a responsibility to work together on behalf of sustained growth, while putting in place the rules of the road that can prevent this kind of crisis from happening again, " the president said in a statement ahead of the gathering.
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