If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign.

I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.