"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that."
"You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth."
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university"
"I'm a warrior for the middle class."
"I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA."
"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition."