In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.