Those are the kind of basic rights that I think everybody should enjoy.

the fundamentals of our economy are strong.

We're spending large sums of money to kick highly-qualified gays or lesbians out of our military, some of whom possess specialties like Arab language capabilities that we desperately need. That doesn't make us more safe.

If we are keeping focused on all the fundamentally sound aspects of our economy, all the outstanding companies, workers, all the innovation, and dynamism in this economy, then we're going to get through this. And I'm very confident about…

No one's been more out front on the global warming issue than Senator McCain.

This program will be implemented through a cap-and-trade system, a policy approach that dramatically reduced acid rain at much lower costs than the traditional government regulations and mandates of the past.

And we cannot go back to endless cycles of bubble and bust. We can't continue to base our economy on reckless speculation and spending beyond our means, on bad credit and inflated home prices and overleveraged banks. This crisis teaches us…

We understand the challenges and have moved aggressively to address those that have seemed intractable in the past.

We cannot go back to endless cycles of bubble and bust. We can't continue to base our economy on reckless speculation and spending beyond our means, on bad credit, and inflated home prices, and overleveraged banks.

the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century.

It is not true that these individuals do not pay taxes. They may not pay one kind of tax, but they pay other taxes, and that's my point.

The time has come, in my view, to put transit in the driver's seat again.

While I pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I'm President of the United States of America.

You can't have Congress bogged down at this critical juncture in our economic recovery. But I also view this as a departure point for more far-reaching change.

One of the first women bank vice presidents in the state of Hawaii but I also saw how she hit a glass ceiling.

That's why so many of us are here today, because of the women who came before us who were determined to see us sit in the high seats. Women who reached for the balance and raised families and traveled long, lonely roads to be the first in…

Women still earn just 78 cents for every dollar men make. Women are more than half of our population but just 17 percent of our Congress.

Taxing employee health benefits is the largest middle-class tax increase in history.