Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share the blessings we enjoy and to advance the cause of peace in all corners of our world.

I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.

In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.