The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.