Now, here's what we're going to do, is we're going to just -- whoever has a question, raise their hand.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds Town Hall in New Orleans

But while we have survived foreign challenges in the past, even after the stumbling beginnings typical of democracies, those we face today are of a new and possibly more dangerous kind and raise a question as to whether the United States of 2008 still has the right stuff.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The past, and the present

Ideally, we would extend or raise the debt ceiling for a long period of time so that this is not a question, so that the uncertainty that has surrounded this issue of late -- because of the political strategy that House Republicans have taken -- will be removed, or would be removed.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing