Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.

...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have differnt stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for our children and our grandchildren. This belief comes from my unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people.

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.