If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.