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Full transcript | Barack Obama | Speech to Congress on jobs | Washington | 8 September 2011

"These are difficult years for our country. But we are Americans. We are tougher than the times we live in, and we are bigger than our politics have been. So let's meet the moment. Let's get to work, and let's show the world once again why the United States of America remains the greatest nation on Earth."

By Barack Obama

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, and fellow Americans:

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