Quotes: President Barack Obama on America’s Unemployment

By Chris Gentilviso July 19, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington

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“It’s time to do what’s right, not for the next election, but for the middle class.”

— PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, to GOP lawmakers, on the need to restore unemployment benefits for jobless Americans (Via the Associated Press)