We have places in America that really have been just forgotten.

George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making.

We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have to build coalitions, something that I did to take on the Iranian nuclear program, and what I will do as president to make sure that we defeat these terrorist networks.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.