No one should ever have to choose between paying the rent and filling their prescriptions.

We currently have a system for taking care of sickness. We do not have a system for enhancing and promoting health.

Let's prove that the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.

I have won elections and I have lost elections.