"I disagree with Mr. Perot that the answer is to put a 50-cent gas tax on the middle class and raise more taxes on the middle class and the working poor than on the wealthy."
"I'm going to do better if we have the courage to change."
"We need more police on the street."
"I think we can bring it down by 50 percent in 4 years and grow the economy."
"I favor strict controls on how much you can spend running for Congress."
"I want to bring that change to the American people, but we must all decide first we have the courage to change for hope and a better tomorrow."
"I believe experience counts, but it's not everything."
"Mr. Bush, for 12 years you've had it your way. You've had your chance, and it didn't work."
"The most important family policy, urban policy, labor policy, minority policy, and foreign policy America can have is an expanding entrepreneurial economy of high-wage, high-skilled jobs."
"But this is America. There is no them. There is only us."
"The choice we offer is not conservative or liberal. In many ways, it is not even Republican or Democratic. It is different. It is new. And it will work."
"In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again—old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community."
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
"When we pull together, America will pull ahead."
"Our country has fallen so far so fast that just a few months ago the Japanese prime minister actually said he felt sympathy for the United States."
"He has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better."
"I am well aware that all those millions of people who rallied to Ross Perot's cause wanted to be in an army of patriots for change. Tonight I say to them, join us, and together we will revitalize Amer..."
"When I am your President, the rest of the world will not look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again."