"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States of America."
"This is a guy who has better prepared for the presidency than anybody I've ever seen. Enormously engaging, enormously caring, and enormously intelligent."
"John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded."
"In no other country on Earth is my story even possible."
"The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too."
"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States."
"The audacity of hope!"
"If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child."
"America, we have more work to do."
"Out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come."