BARACK OBAMA: "That is why, even as it cuts back on programs we don't need, the budget I submit will invest in the three areas that are absolutely critical to our economic future: energy,health care,and education."

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Every dollar of waste in our defense budget is a dollar we can't spend to support our troops or prepare for future threats or protect the American people,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

Because we know we can't build our economic future on the transportation and information networks of the past, we are remaking the American landscape with the largest new investment in our nation's infrastructure since Eisenhower built an interstate highway system in the 1950s.

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As a social scientist, I felt that there wasn't a future for our country without a future for Latin America.

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We can't afford to put our future on hold.

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