The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.