Sincerity? I can fake that.

Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.

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.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.