We are going to break down some of these barriers, because the American people need it. They are desperate for us to find common ground. And I actually think more exists than it appears right now.

It's only the beginning of what we're going to have to do to turn around our economy.

This man, our first Republican President, knew better than anybody what it meant to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

Although we are responsible for our own fates, in the end, there are certain things we cannot do on our own.

We will be remembered for what we choose to make of this moment. And when posterity looks back on our time, as we are looking back on Lincoln's I don't want it said that we saw an economic crisis but we did not stem it.

All Americans will need strong STEM backgrounds to participate effectively in a competitive global economy.

Look around us. Look at this construction site right where we're standing. We're surrounded by unmet needs and unfinished business. In our schools, in our roads, in the systems we employ to treat the sick. And the energy we use to power…

We need somebody who has got the heart, the empathy to recognize what it is like to be a young teen-age mom, the empathy to us understand what it is like to be poor or African American or gay or disabled or old.

We've inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression.

If stuff hasn't worked and people don't feel like I've led the country in the right direction, then you'll have a new President.

And I know how frustrating it is for taxpayers when they're looking and they're saying, let me get this straight. You've got a guy who was making $20 million a year who ran his bank into the ground. And now we've got to come in and clean…