We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

Everybody potentially can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office.

Despite all the noise and hullabaloo - military cooperation, intelligence cooperation, all of that has continued. We have defended them consistently in every imaginable way. But I also believe that both for our national interests and Israel's national interests that allowing an ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that could get worse and worse over time is a problem. And that settlements contribute.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.