If we are serious about having real change in this country, then we have to start putting America's interests ahead of the special interests that are blocking our efforts to create universal health care, an energy policy that focuses on…

Hezbollah made friends by building health clinics and schools, and America could learn from that.

I continue to believe this investigation should proceed to its conclusion without any appearance that I have attempted to influence its outcome. I will continue my policy of not commenting on this investigation until it has concluded.

We should reverse the presumption of confirmation. We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances.

I have never seen an attorney so contemptuous of Congress and his role as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.

It's time for America to show the world that we're still the last, best hope of Earth.

It's time for a new generation of leadership to save our generation from global catastrophe.

We didn't change the world, but we changed those neighborhoods, and I proved that old man wrong.

I opposed this war back in 2002 when I was running for the United States Senate.

I don't want a continuation of Bush/Cheney. I don't want Bush/Cheney-lite. I want a fundamental change.

It's no longer sufficient for us to trot out the old formulas, the old tired phrases. If we want fundamental change, then we can't be afraid to talk to our enemies.

I'm not afraid of losing the P.R. war to dictators. I'm happy to look them in the eye and say what needs to be said.

Do I support Senator Schumer's request for a special prosecutor? No. I think that Senator Schumer has made a practice of politicizing this matter.

But, as John King reported earlier, they have traded those smiles for some sparring with gloves are off.

But I don't want to see the power and prestige of the United States president put at risk by rushing in to meetings with the likes of Chavez and Castro and Ahmadinejad.

You know, I have been called a lot of things in my life, but I have never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney, certainly.

Well, the voters are going to have to draw those conclusions. Where we disagree, I think, it's fair to draw that difference.

This is getting kind of silly. You know, I have been called a lot of things in my life, but I have never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney, certainly.