End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.