When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.