America simply cannot continue on this path. The need to drastically change our energy policy is no longer a debatable proposition.

The transformation of the cars we drive and the fuels we use would be the most ambitious energy project in decades, with results that would last for generations to come.

I will be that kind of President - a President who believes again in America that can.

In the days and months after September 11th, Americans were waiting to be called to something larger than themselves.

It's the kind of American miracle we need today.

It's time for all of us to head back into the factories and universities; to the boardrooms and the halls of Congress so we can roll up our sleeves and find a way to get this done.

America is a country that hasn't come easily. In our brief history, we have been tested by revolution and slavery, war and depression, and great movements for social, civil, and equal rights.

The price of our progress has always been borne by the struggle and sacrifice of our people - by leaders who have asked ordinary Americans to do extraordinary things.

Meeting the challenge posed by our oil dependence won't require us to build the massive war machine that Franklin Roosevelt called for so many years ago, but it will require the same sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility from all of…

A clean, secure energy future will take another American miracle. It will require a historic effort on the scale of what we saw in those factories during World War II.

For the very resource that has fueled our way of life over the last hundred years now threatens to destroy it if our generation does not act now and act boldly.

I don't consider Chicago or Illinois off-limits.

Authorities are reportedly worried about racially motivated attacks on the candidate.

I'm in it to win it.

I want to get our troops home as soon as I possibly can. But at the same time I recognize we don't want to bring them out in such a precipitous way that cause a circumstance that would require us to come back.

If we withdraw, there will be chaos. There will be genocide. And they will follow us home.

We will do whatever is necessary. We will track him down. We will capture -- we will bring him to justice and I'll follow him to the gates of hell.

I'd put forward an alternative flat tax and allow people to choose between the current tax coding system, which doesn't work, which ought to be taken behind the barn and killed with a dull ax, and alternate flat tax and let them choose.