After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.