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

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.

I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.