We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard and some people think it's boring. Speeches like this are fun, actually doing the work is hard.

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

I knew from the minute I saw her (Hillary) that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.