You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.

I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage.

Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage the highest levels of voter turnout and participation.

When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.

We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.

Anyone who is willing to take a bullet for this country, anyone who is willing to serve in uniform, should at the end of their military service be given an opportunity to become an American citizen.

We need to make sure we're making a distinction between violent felons who are in this country illegally and children who were brought here through no fault of their own, who have grown up here in America.

The fact is, I was elected governor of the state of Missouri to bring more jobs to the state of Missouri.

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

I came to see that it wasn't enough just to care about people. You also had to build systems in which you could ensure that there are results and accountability.

When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'

When people have jobs in a thriving economy, it solves a lot of problems.

Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.

In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.

Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.

I know the pride of carrying our nation's flag abroad - and I have felt the grief of burying too many friends beneath that flag at home.

If you want to start or grow a business in the state of Missouri and hire more people with good jobs, I will be your friend and ally.

Trial lawyers can sue people in the state of Missouri, and because of how broken the system is, if they win just one dollar for their client, they still get paid huge legal fees. For too long in this state, trial lawyers have picked our people's pockets.

Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.

We need a modern government that allows people to do more on-line instead of making them wait in line.