President Obama: On the Record

The president makes his case for re-election.

Why an Undecided Voter Should Vote Obama - The president recently spoke with the Associated Press on his record and why people should vote for him over Republican Mitt Romney on Nov. 6. Here are key quotes from the interview. — BET.com Staff"We aren't where we need to be. Everybody agrees with that. But Gov. Romney's policies would make things worse for middle-class families and offer no prospect for long-term opportunity for those striving to get into the middle class."(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Why an Undecided Voter Should Vote Obama - The president recently spoke with the Associated Press on his record and why people should vote for him over Republican Mitt Romney on Nov. 6. Here are key quotes from the interview. — BET.com Staff"We aren't where we need to be. Everybody agrees with that. But Gov. Romney's policies would make things worse for middle-class families and offer no prospect for long-term opportunity for those striving to get into the middle class."(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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On Whether He Holds Any Disdain for Romney - "I don't really know him well. I think that the big arguments that I have with Gov. Romney have to do with where we take this country forward." (Photo: Julie Denesha/Getty Images)

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On Whether He Holds Any Disdain for Romney - "I don't really know him well. I think that the big arguments that I have with Gov. Romney have to do with where we take this country forward." (Photo: Julie Denesha/Getty Images)

President Barack Obama: August 4 - The leader of the free world celebrates his 51st birthday this week.   (Photo: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

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On His Record of His Term in Office - "When I look back on 2008, the promises that I made — I said I'd end the war in Iraq; I did. I said that I'd go after al-Qaeda and bin Laden; we did. I said that I'd give middle-class families a tax cut; they're paying on average about $3,600 less than they were when I came into office. I said that I would make sure that every American family has some security when it comes to health insurance; we got it done. ... So we haven't gotten everything done that I promised, but a big chunk of what I said I would do in 2008 we have done."(Photo: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

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On What He Has Learned From Romney's Campaign - "His view of how we grow an economy is just contradicted by the facts. He has embraced an approach that we tried for almost a decade, and it didn't work. And he's now looking to double down on it."(Photos from left: Julie Denesha/Getty Images, Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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On What Obama Believes Romney Stands For - "I can't speak to Gov. Romney's motivations. What I can say is that he has signed up for positions, extreme positions that are very consistent with positions that a number of House Republicans have taken. And whether he actually believes in those or not, I have no doubt that he would carry forward some of the things that he's talked about."(Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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On What Obama Believes Romney Stands For - "I can't speak to Gov. Romney's motivations. What I can say is that he has signed up for positions, extreme positions that are very consistent with positions that a number of House Republicans have taken. And whether he actually believes in those or not, I have no doubt that he would carry forward some of the things that he's talked about."(Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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On Romney's Background - "Gov. Romney obviously has achieved extraordinary success with his businesses, and he's obviously very focused on achieving the presidency. He cares deeply about his family, and I think he cares deeply about his faith." (Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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On Romney's Background - "Gov. Romney obviously has achieved extraordinary success with his businesses, and he's obviously very focused on achieving the presidency. He cares deeply about his family, and I think he cares deeply about his faith." (Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Claim: Romney Supports Employer's Moral Decisions Regarding Birth Control - True: President Obama accused Mitt Romney of supporting an employer's decision "whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage" in their second debate, which fact-checkers back-up. "His support for the Blunt amendment endorses the approach that employers should be able to make the decision about whether contraception is covered by employees’ insurance," Politifact.com writes. (Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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On Romney's Disclosure of Tax Returns - "The small bits of disclosure that he has put forward indicate investments in the Bahamas, or Swiss bank accounts, that indicates to me a lack of willingness to take responsibility for what this job entails."(Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Claim: "The number one to cut is Obamacare. That saves $95 billion a year," Romney said in a Jan. 8 primary debate in New Hampshire. - Fact-check: An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that a repeal of the Affordable Care Act would add $210 billion to the deficit.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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On Romney's Abilities as a Debater - "My sense is Gov. Romney is a very capable debater. I think he did a very good job in his primary scoring points. The challenge he may end up having is the fact that some of the core arguments he's making against me just aren't based on facts."(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Barack Obama - "They argue that if you help corporations and wealthy investors maximize their profits by whatever means necessary, whether it be layoffs or outsourcing, union busting or whatever means are available, that will automatically translate into jobs and prosperity to benefit everybody," President Obama said of Romney and Republican leaders during a campaign event in Miami Beach.(Photo: LARRY DOWNING/Landov)

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On How He Would Try to Break a Stalemate in a Second Term - "The American people will have voted. They will have cast a decisive view on how we should move the country forward, and I would hope that the Republican Party, after a fulsome debate, would say to itself, we need to listen to the American people." (Photo: REUTERS /LARRY DOWNING /LANDOV)

On How He Would Pursue a Second-Term Agenda - "For me to be able to say to the Republicans, the election is over; you no longer need to be focused on trying to beat me ... I'm prepared to make a whole range of compromises, some of which I get criticized from the Democratic Party on, in order to make progress. But we're going to need compromise on your side as well. And the days of viewing compromise as a dirty word need to be over because the American people are tired of it."(Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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On How He Would Pursue a Second-Term Agenda - "For me to be able to say to the Republicans, the election is over; you no longer need to be focused on trying to beat me ... I'm prepared to make a whole range of compromises, some of which I get criticized from the Democratic Party on, in order to make progress. But we're going to need compromise on your side as well. And the days of viewing compromise as a dirty word need to be over because the American people are tired of it."(Photo: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)