If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.