My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are.

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.