We [Democrats] have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.

I don't mind the debates, they're good for America, but we shouldn't be out there attacking each other all the time.

The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.

When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.