Barack Obama

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.

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

The fundamentals of our economy are strong.

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…

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

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

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.

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.

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…

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

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

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.

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.

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…

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

Earmarks have been used as a vehicle for waste and fraud and abuse. Projects have been inserted at the 11th hour without review and sometimes without merit in order to satisfy the political or personal agendas of a given legislator.

This effort is vital not only for protecting U.S. investors in global markets, but for protecting our financial sector from the consequences of a global regulatory race to the bottom.

We need to regulate institutions for what they do, not what they are.

The most important goal of government support must be to get banks lending again by ensuring they are properly capitalized.

The Bush Administration fundamentally saw the internationalization of financial markets as a pretext for weakening U.S. investor protections.

It is vital that we fully fund FAA in order to ensure we can modernize our air traffic control systems.

I want to make the Merchant Marine Academy the same jewel that Air Force, West Point and Annapolis are.

I want to highlight the President's funding request for some of our critical modes.

We have let our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short, and other nations outpace us.