I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country.

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

We should tell people we are working to protect our country. We are working to make America stronger for the long run.