We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.