There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.