Health care is not a privilege for the wealthy and the connected and the elected. It is a right for all Americans, and we're going to make it available to all Americans.

My pledge to you that I made last night, John and I will keep. We're going to restore trust and credibility to the White House.

Let there be no mistake. I will never hesitate to use force when it was required.

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. Let there be no mistake, I will never hesitate to use force when it is required.

The great United States of America, our beloved country, never goes to war because it wants to. We go to war because we have to.

Any attack will be met with a swift and certain response.

I think he believes that testimony to the Senate as a member of the anti-war movement. As a veteran I think he still thinks that was the most important speech of his life so far.

Values are not just words. They are what we live by. They are about the causes we champion and the people we fight for. And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

Joe Biden now taking to the podium -- one of the many speakers here who will be talking about John Kerry the man, his record, his military record, and what they say he will do for this country.

I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to my opportunity a little more than 24 hours from now to share with you and all of America a vision for how we're going to make this country stronger at home and respected in the world. That's…

I think my wife speaks her mind appropriately.

Our beloved country never goes to war because it wants to. We go to war because we have to.

the man has enormous integrity, that he is extremely passionate. He is responsible and that he is a very decisive and strong leader who will make this country better and really, I think, speak to an optimism that will help the country rise…

If I were president today, if I'd been president last week, I would have immediately said to the commission, Yes, we're going to implement those recommendations...

This is a guy who has better prepared for the presidency than anybody I've ever seen. Enormously engaging, enormously caring, and enormously intelligent.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.

If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child.