And, you know, I don’t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

There is a theory that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked. And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake.

We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.

I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.