Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.

The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.