Smothering firms in red tape is not the way to help them; Mr Obama should vow to stop adding to it, and to start cutting some of it away.
But in return, he said, Republicans should vow not to raise the debt ceiling unless it is tied to significant cuts to Medicare.
You should vow to make a change, and then you should do it". But, of course, as we've all seen and experienced, to truly succeed requires much more.
He should vow to do more in his second term.
But this year, maybe we should vow to stay in contact a little less.
He should vow not just to veto a repeal of the legislation, but to fight to strengthen its cost-containment mechanisms.
We would still depend on our presidents, who should vow to route all clemency applications to the Justice Department's pardon attorney for appropriate review.
"We shouldn't kill these men, that is what I will tell the crowd, we should pity them for what they became, we should wring our hands and lament where we went wrong to produce such ill specimens of humanity, and we should vow that this is a place where we should never go again".
The EU should vow tougher action on climate change to maintain political leadership, says a committee of MPs.
China and the United States "should vow to respect each other's rights" to forestall close-quarters encounters such as the 2001 EP-3 incident (p. 49).
When we hear a candidate say that "experts don't know anything," or "I'm not throwing my lot in with the experts," we should vow to do the opposite of what the speaker wants.
