The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.

At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .