Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

If you don't have a record to run on, you paint your opponent as someone to run from.

When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has.

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.