I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

You know whether you have a real relationship with the president when you know it's real.

Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.

Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.