Barack Obama's Weekly YouTube Address: 4/25/09

"To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative."

"We cannot sustain deficits that mortgage our children’s future, nor tolerate wasteful inefficiency. Government has a responsibility to spend the peoples’ money wisely, and to serve the people effectively. I will work every single day that I am President to live up to that responsibility, and to transform our government so that is held to a higher standard of performance on behalf of the American people."