there are places in the country where that's not true.

Madam President, I come to the Senate floor this evening to express my strong opposition to the resolution of disapproval filed by Senate Republicans that seeks to overturn critical new NLRB rules that will protect workers across America…

The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do, but it's not the best America can do.

That's not a Democratic talking point. That's his positions. He's going to have to answer for those positions.

Can he win independents? Can he make an appeal to narrow the gender gap? Increase his vote -- his support among Hispanics?

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

You mentioned, as we look forward here, this is where Governor Romney starts the night.

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…

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

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

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.

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.

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.

People are hurting in America. And we know that something is wrong, terribly wrong, with the direction of the country.

We believe in America. We believe in ourselves. Our greatest days are ahead.