I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.

No one is pro-abortion.

That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

I think there are a lot of people who are involved in the Tea Party who have very real and sincere concerns about spending that's out of control or generally philosophically believe that the government should be less involved in certain aspects of American life rather than more involved. And they have every right and obligation as citizens to be involved and engaged in this process.