The only way to fully restore America’s economic strength is to make the long-term investments that will lead to new jobs, new industries, and a renewed ability to compete with the rest of the world. The only way this century will be another American century is if we confront at last the price of our dependence on oil and the high cost of health care; the schools that aren’t preparing our children and the mountain of debt they stand to inherit.

BARACK OBAMA, Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009

“So I’m making all these problems bigger because I want that confrontation to be EPIC!”