"People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world."

"We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is."

"Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money."

"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people."

"The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing."

"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."

"People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right."

"I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue."