You Can Put Wings On A Pig,

When You Stifle Human Potential, When You Don't Invest In New Ideas, It Doesn't Just Cut Off The People Who Are Affected; It Hurts Us All.

If We Have The Right Preventive And Primary Care, If We Start Charging For Comprehensive Care In The Chronic Cases, 10 Percent Of The Cases Take Up Two-thirds Of The Medical Expenses, And If We Do More On Problems Like Childhood Obesity, That We Can, To Use The Parlance That's Popular In Washington, Bend The Cost Curve And Eventually Reconcile This So Our Costs Will Be Closer To Our Competitors And So We Can Cover Everybody.

All Of Us In Our Administration Worked Hard To Support Families In Raising Their Children And Succeeding At Work.

Nothing In Our Lifetimes Has Been More Heartening Than When People Of The Former Soviet Union And Central Europe Broke The Grip Of Communism. We Have Aided Their Progress And I Am Proud Of It.

No Generation Has Had The Opportunity, As We Now Have, To Build A Global Economy That Leaves No-one Behind. It Is A Wonderful Opportunity, But Also A Profound Responsibility.