I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system.

I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to college or get a higher education are unable to do so, not because they lack the ability but because they lack the money.

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.