When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.