What we do right now, today, matters.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.