At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything

I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term.

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.

People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.