Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

Elections are about the future.

I think a primary always makes the other candidate a better candidate because you're battle-tested and you have to think in ways that other people are thinking in addition to your own vision, how to incorporate some fresher, newer thinking into all of that.

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

I went to Congress to change the policies of our country. I did not go to change the behaviors of members of Congress.

The Republicans have been baying at the moon for seven years, in March it was seven years since the president signed the bill. They've been baying at the moon that they had a better idea.

Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.