The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform..

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care..

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recov….

Obviously what I think Senator [John] Kerry was pointing to, which is absolutely correct, which is the essential part of the strategy or a key compon….

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything..

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our al….

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging tha….

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the c….

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pres….

There has to be a reform within the government that is tangible, that we can actually measure and that we have confidence is going to provide some of….

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?.

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide..

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn..

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by ….

The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we've canceled basically our missile defense system undercutting the C….

I wake up some mornings hating me too..

Take your f***ing tampon out and tell me what you have to say..

Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more ….

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law..

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In t….

And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and m….