We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.

The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe.

That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed.

I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.

I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.

We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability.

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.