Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

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

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.

Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.

Character is a journey, not a destination.