Every election is different, every context is different. I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president Bill Clinton was important.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

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.

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Personally, I don't pick books for how people think about me. I read books so I can learn.