This does not have to be. It's the result of failed leadership and a faulty vision.

And we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.

I have a very different vision for America and for our future. It's an America driven by freedom where free people pursuing happiness in their own unique ways create free enterprises that employ more and more Americans.

This president is putting us on a path where our lives will be ruled by bureaucrats and boards, commissions and czars.

Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years. And it's the start of a new and better chapter that we will write together.

We will stop the days of apologizing for success at home and never again apologize for America abroad.

Poverty will be defeated. Not with a government check, but with respect and achievement that's taught by parents, learned in school, and practiced in the work place.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice.

Those who promise to spread the wealth around only ever succeed in spreading poverty around.

His problem really isn't about flip-flopping. His problem is where -- his policy positions that he -- that he has embraced and that he supports.

Are you better off today than you were when Barack Obama took office?

But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and at a different time, but not here and not now. It's still about the economy, and…

He has to win Florida, he has to win Ohio.

For every single mom who feels heartbroken when she has to explain to her kids that she needs to take a second job and won't be home as often, for grandparents who can't afford the gas to visit their grandchildren anymore, for the mom and…

Government is at the center of his vision. It dispenses the benefits, borrows what it can't take, consumes a greater and greater share of the economy. You know, with Obamacare fully installed, government would have control of almost half…

He's been talking about women voters. He's been talking about younger voters. He's been talking to Hispanic voters.

American citizens are sick and tired of stories about government's failure to act as a faithful steward of taxpayer dollars.