We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."

Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I'd like to give it to them.

I was also very concerned about protecting my family.

Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.