“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's …”

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

— Barack Obama

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Speech on the floor of the US Senate in which he opposed raising the US debt limit. (16 March 2006)

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Obama, Barack. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Barack Obama. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

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