“We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney.”

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

I’ve always been me. I’ve always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.

Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama’s vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it’s an easy choice.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

I have spent my tenure in office – and, in fact, my adult lifetime – fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

Eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent,

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970.

The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today’s advanced economies’ operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before.