It's time to turn the page on a politics that has turned its back on rural America.

My call for a new foreign policy is based on the same thing that informed my opposition to the war in Iraq: common sense not conventional Washington thinking.

Think of what we can achieve together if we change the conventional thinking that's squandering America's reputation in the world.

We need to restore our standing in the world to combat common enemies.

I'm running on my judgment and I'll tell the American people where I stand.

We have to take the blinders off the White House.

I know it's easy to be cynical about politics in this country.

They want real reform and they're tired of the lobbyists standing in the way.

We've got a politics in Washington that isn't working for the people anymore, and we're going to have to build a movement to overcome the status quo.

I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war…

Put a whole bunch of Illinois folks to work.

To put a whole bunch of Illinois folks to work.

President Bush has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. I will provide our intelligence and the law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists…

The Bush administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security. It is not. There are no shortcuts to protecting America.

There is no military solution in Iraq.

We can hold true to our values, and in doing so advance those values abroad.

I pleaded that we 'finish the fight with bin Ladin and al Qaeda.'

That's why I don't take money from Federal lobbyists or PACs, and that's why I have offered the most far-reaching ethics and lobbying reform plan of any candidate in this race.