Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. Im ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.