American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. So we should take everything serious. This is - we find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it.

It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.