You just have to sort of figure out how to - getting back to that word, "balance" - how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of our history.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.

I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.

If you were an elected member of Congress and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in the press is saying it's all the fault of Wall Street, you can't sit idly by and do nothing, but what you do is really important.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Multimillionaires cannot pay lower rates than their secretaries and other people working for them.