Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.