It starts with tax relief.

Make no mistake: we are confronting an urgent crisis in Afghanistan, and we have to act.

I will make sure those insurance companies can never do that again.

I ask you to believe - to believe in yourselves, in each other, and in the future we can build together.

Together, we cannot fail; together, we can rise to meet any challenge.

To succeed, we need leadership that understands the connection between our economy and our strength in the world.

The American people don't want to hear politicians attack each other - you want to hear about how we're going to attack the challenges facing middle class families each and every day.

We're not going to defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries through an occupation of Iraq.

We must recognize that from global economic turmoil to global terrorism, the challenges we face demand American leadership of strong alliances.

These are the steps that we must take - right now - to start getting our economy back on track.

We can't afford another President who ignores the fundamentals of our economy while running up record deficits to fight a war without end in Iraq.

If you want real change - if you want an economy that rewards work, and that works for Main Street and Wall Street; if you want tax relief for the middle class and millions of new jobs.

If we can spend $10 billion a month rebuilding Iraq, we can certainly spend some money to rebuild America.

The financial crisis that states, businesses and families are facing didn't just spring up full-blown overnight.

After eight years of Bush-McCain economics, the pie is now shrinking.

That's why I'm running for President - to give them that chance and rebuild our economy.

When we spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, that means less money to fix crumbling roads and bridges here at home.

I've proposed $15 billion a year to create five million new green jobs over the next decade.