If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream really is alive and well again, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and justice and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you have to vote for Barack Obama.

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.

We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.