We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm no attack dog.