"We will restore the kind of moral standing we had around the world when Bill Clinton was president. He gave the world a sense that he was listening to them and he cared about them."

"Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West- in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote."

"I think it is fair to say that had I not been a Stevie Wonder fan, Michelle might not have dated me, we might not have married. The fact that we agreed on Stevie was part of the essence of our courtship."

"I mean, Kobe's terrific. Don't get me wrong. But I haven't seen anyone match up with Jordan yet."

"It is this sense of unity that is so much a part of Lincoln’s legacy. For what Lincoln never forgot, not even in the midst of civil war, was that, despite all that divided us -- north and south, black and white -- he had an unyielding belief that we were, at heart, one nation, and one people."

"The reason I’m running for president is because I can’t be Bruce Springsteen."

"I grew up on his music. I still have all his stuff on my iPod."