"Rising health care costs are undermining our businesses, exploding our deficits, and costing our nation more jobs with each passing month,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

And while we need to do everything in the short-term to get our economy moving again, we must recognize that having inherited a trillion-dollar deficit, we need to begin restoring fiscal discipline and taming our exploding deficits over the long-term.

CNN: Obama's remarks on signing the stimulus plan