If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.

We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.

Do you think I'd be stupid enough to go running with someone I was foolin' with?

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.