I believe experience counts, but it's not everything.

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.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

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.

But this is America. There is no them. There is only us.

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.

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.

When we pull together, America will pull ahead.

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.

A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy.

Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Now that we have changed the world, it's time to change America.

And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.

I do not want to return to the time when we made criminals of women and their doctors.

We don't have a person to waste, and yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us.

He won't give mothers and fathers the simple chance to take some time off from work when a baby is born or a parent is sick, but I will.

The Republicans have campaigned against big government for a generation, but have you noticed? They've run this big government for a generation and they haven't changed a thing.