09/03/2009
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"If you sense, as I sense, that the time is now... then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you."
"We all made this journey for a reason. It's humbling, but in my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be."
"Let us be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil."
"I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change."