I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since the Great Depression. When consumers can't buy and businesses won't expand for lack of customers, the government has to be the purchaser and employer of last resort. We learned that in the Great Depression, but Republicans obviously didn't - and they've blocked every jobs program I've offered.

It's not a choice between our environment and our economy; it's a choice between prosperity and decline.

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them.

The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.