The only person who would probably be prepared to be president on day one would be Bill Clinton, not Hillary Clinton.

I'm pleased to see young organizers taking leadership roles at the grassroots level.

Thousands of young people are getting involved in this campaign because they see it as a powerful way to change our country.

I hope that College Democrats everywhere will get involved in our student organization.

But had I been present, I would have voted against waiving the Budget Act in relation to the Gregg amendment to eliminate the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol. This amendment to lift the tariff against Brazilian ethanol would…

I am looking forward to sitting down with this group of four people who are representative of the millions of voices that have been drowned out by the special interests in Washington.

By vetoing funding for stem cell research once again, the President is deferring the hopes of millions of Americans who do not have the time to keep waiting for the cure that may save or extend their lives.

The promise that stem cells hold does not come from any particular ideology, it is the judgment of science, and we deserve a President who will put that judgment first and make this promise real for the American people.

I know that change is possible.

It's time to turn the page for hope.

We believe that we rise or fall as one people.

It is time to address the crisis of absentee fathers. We must ask ourselves why more than a quarter of all American families have only one parent present, and more than a third live without their father. We must get a handle on why 40…

the facts about our Nation's energy consumption are not pretty right now. The United States currently consumes one-quarter of the world's oil. Sixty percent of the oil we consume comes from foreign countries, including many countries whose…

Parents will need to make sure their kids turn off the TV once in a while, and put away the video games, and start hitting the books.

So, for those Americans who have been searching unsuccessfully for employment, I will invest $50 million in programs that will place willing workers into transitional jobs and train them for permanent ones.

There are fewer and fewer families who can tell this story today.

In the last six years, over 300,000 black males have lost jobs in the manufacturing sector - the highest rate of any ethnic group.

Each year at this time we honor and think about the fathers who've been a part of our lives - the examples they've set, the sacrifices they've made, their successes and their struggles.

The second step we'll take to strengthen families is to ensure that working Americans are not impoverished Americans.

And of course, though I did not know him well, every year around Father's Day I think of my own father. He and my mother divorced when I was only two years old, and for most of my life I knew him only through the letters he sent and the…

It has not been lost on either Michelle or myself that our family's story has been America's story - a story of opportunity, and possibility, and the tireless pursuit of a dream that was always within reach.

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of hearing that town tell us we can't.

Today, 54% of all African-American children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled since 1960.

Providing these families with the same chances that previous generations have had is a daunting challenge, but it is certainly one we can meet.

I think about my grandfather, who first became a father when my mother was born on a Kansas army base at the outset of World War II. He left to fight fascism in Europe while my grandmother stayed behind and pitched in on a bomber assembly…