Barack Obama: “I'm confident we're going to get an energy bill, because it's the right thing to do.”

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

a belief that our military and law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our constitution … a belief in the peaceful transfer of power

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi served the American people and worked to make our country better.

I was a little tall for it.