"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"I'm not a person who believes that government is the answer to all our problems. I believe that government is a tool."

"We tortured some folks."

"I think we've been a little bit lazy, I think, in our approach to energy, and we haven't been willing to make some of the tough choices."

"I'm not a socialist. I'm a pragmatist."