What was President Obama’s Best Line from His Speech? Vote!

• "I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last."
  
  
• "Know this. I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than to improve it."
  
  
• "No one should go broke because they get sick."
  
  
• "Put simply, our health care problem IS our deficit problem. Nothing else even comes close."
  
  
• "UNDER THIS LAW [my emphasis], no company can deny you for a pre-existing condition."
  
  
• "While there are some details that need to be ironed out [broad-based chuckle from gallery]."
  
  
• "[In indirect reference to 'Death Panels'] It is a lie, plain and simple."
  
  
• "You lie!" -- Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina (early attribution)
  
  
• "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period."
  
  
• "[To insurance companies and others] If you misrepresent this plan, we will call you out."
  
  
• "[Healthcare Reform] That great, unfinished business of our Society." -- Senator Ted Kennedy in letter
  
  
• "We did not come here to fear the future. We came to shape it."
  
  

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