It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.