The private sector is doing fine.

In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.

I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else.