It's the economy, stupid.

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

I was also very concerned about protecting my family.

If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

What you earn depends on what you learn.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.