A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the right of privacy, the autonomy of individuals, while at the same time empowering the federal government to protect the less powerful.

Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.