We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.