Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

Like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning.

I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.

The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.

The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.