We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Democracy is hard work.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.