I think people can say that my election symbolizes some progress, at least within the small confines of the legal community.

My candidacy for president of the United States of America.

... that in no other country on the Earth is my story even possible.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America.

I wasn't born into a lot of money. I didn't have a trust fund. I wasn't born into fame and fortune. I was raised by a single mother with the help of my grandparents who grew up in small-town Kansas and went to school on the G.I. Bill and…

They'll even come around with TV crews in tow and throw back a shot and a beer. But if those same candidates are taking millions of dollars in contributions from the PACs and the lobbyists, ask yourself who are they going to be toasting…

what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness.

Out of touch? I mean, John McCain, it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem, and to come up with a plan for it, and he's saying, I'm out of touch?

But the truth is, is that our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives.

Senator -- Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt, after taking money from the financial services company, and she says I'm out of touch?

Senator -- Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt, after taking money from the financial services company, and she says I'm out of touch?