You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.

When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

I have a deep appreciation for the wisdom of this guy , George Washington.