As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.

It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.