Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.