A universal healthcare plan must be practical and achievable.

the kind of change we can believe in

Stand for Change

He's the only candidate in this race who's actually taken power away from lobbyists.

He's the only candidate in either party who can change the way business is done in Washington.

I'm confident that he's our best chance to win in November.

Barack understands the issues that matter to folks in the Quad Cities.

I know that hope has been the guiding force behind the most improbable changes this country has ever made.

Hope is not blind optimism.

That's change you can believe in.

But only if we're willing to work for it and fight for it.

The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result.

We need more light.

People want an affirmation.

I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve them.

This is our time.

Most of all, I believed in the power of the American people to be the real agents of change in this country.

We can't afford the same politics of fear that tells Democrats that the only way to look tough on national security is to talk, act, and vote like George Bush Republicans.