I haven‘t given up on working… across the aisle on issues and maybe it’ll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.

We are a unified party.

But obviously, we’re looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don’t have it today, a competitive marketplace – that’s an idea that both sides embrace.

You know, we – if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation‘s largest state.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn’t have had it if the president hadn’t acted are better off.

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we’re true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that’s the extent of my involvement.

People understand we’re on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

I’m a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don’t have it today – a competitive marketplace: That’s an idea that both sides embrace.

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don’t want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn’t intervened are certainly better off.

We’ve got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don’t act.

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can’t raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can’t cut anything, we’re obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it’s going to take some time to work through it.

We can’t have – we can’t have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that’s what we want to do.

We don’t want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he’s been a great vice president. He’s taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

Our party is – we don’t have the problems that the other party has. We’re not divided. We don’t have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or – we don’t have those problems and we don’t have the reinvention convention.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.