President addresses September jobs numbers Friday from Maryland.

Highlights from Obama’s remarks:

Small businesses are “the bricks and blocks of our entire economy.”

The Republican position “doesn’t make much sense” on the economy.

Touts nine months of job growth in the private sector.

“Putting the American people back to work…is the moral and national challenge of our time,” and it is “too important” to fall to “pure partisanship” or “blind ideology.”