Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.