This election gives us all reason to be proud of our democracy and our country.
We will ask administration officials to brief the Obama team on ongoing policy issues ranging from the financial markets to the war in Iraq....
This will take at least a year or a full term or two terms. We're in a deep, deep hole here. It's going to take a long time to get out of it...
This is a great group of people that Senator Obama is -- president-elect Obama -- correct -- forgive me -- is turning to.
I think it's exactly what the new president needs.
One president at a time. Don't comment on every up and down, and, you know, stop attacking George W. Bush. He is our president.
That kind of determination, that kind of persistence, that kind of pain-in-the-neck, shall we say, approach is going to be very effective, I...
Barack's whole message was: I'm not Bush. I don't like Bush.
First, the most important rule of the transition is, there is only one president at a time.
I mean, Bill Clinton did a good job of bringing in people, giving them experience, moving them up, and promoting them.
That's a very good point, yes. And I say this as a professional partisan Democrat.
Democrats have been impressed with the job he's done.
I remember him telling me about this kid, this skinny kid, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago when we were working in the White House. He said...
This moment is especially uplifting for a generation of Americans who witnessed the struggle for civil rights with their own eyes.
I congratulated him and Senator Biden on their impressive victory.
I congratulated him on a determined campaign that he and Governor Palin ran.
No matter how they cast their ballots, all Americans can be proud of the history that was made yesterday.
The American people will always be grateful for the lifetime of service John McCain has devoted to this Nation.