The people who need a champion are the Americans whose letters I read late at night after I'm done with my work in the office.

It's a choice between going back to the top-down economics that crashed our economy or embracing a future where we're building a strong and growing middle class.

We rise or fall as one Nation and as one people.

You know I mean what I say and I say what I mean.

My administration would continue to use all available resources to support the deployment of necessary assets.

Change is a country where every American has a shot at a good education.

Your country will be there for you for as long as it takes to recover and rebuild.

I expect no letup in these efforts.

I find that a severe energy supply interruption exists and direct the Secretary of Energy to transfer ULSD from the Reserve to the Department of Defense for use in emergency operations and support to the region affected by Hurricane Sandy.

I'm determined to help working families all across Ohio.

It's good to be in Lima.

It is critical that we continue the policies that are building an economy that works for the middle class.

We are going to stand with the people of New York, stand with the people of New Jersey, stand with the people of Connecticut, stand with the people of West Virginia every step of the way.

Our ideas work; their ideas don't.

The economy has now added private sector jobs for 32 straight months, and a total of 5.4 million jobs have been added during that period.

The unemployment rate has decreased by 1.0 percentage point, as a result of growing employment.

I want to cut the growth of tuition in half over the next 10 years.

Our fight goes on because we know that this Nation cannot succeed without a growing and thriving middle class.