It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

I misled people, including even my wife.

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

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.