The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.

We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'

If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.