Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.

The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street.