Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

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.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.

I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.

I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.