The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.

The era of big government is over.

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.