What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

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

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.