A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.

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

What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.