We will put our people first again.

For too long those who play by the rules and keep the faith have gotten the shaft, and those who cut corners and cut deals have been rewarded.

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.

If we want to use government to help people, we have got to make it work again.

This election is about putting power back in your hands and putting government back on your side. It's about putting people first.

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.

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

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.

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

I proudly accept your nomination for President of the United States.

It's time for a change in America.

We have gone from first to 13th in the world in wages since Ronald Reagan and Bush have been in office.

George Bush, if you won't use our power to help America, step aside. I will.

We're losing our farms at a rapid rate, and he has no commitment to keep family farms in the family, but I do.

He's talked a lot about drugs, but he hasn't helped people on the front line to wage that war on drugs and crime. But I will.

I am a product of that middle class, and when I am President, you will be forgotten no more.

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.

We've gotten to where we've nearly them'ed ourselves to death. Them, and them, and them.