We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, "Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage."

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

The dollar is the reserve currency of the world.