Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.