10/21/2007
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"We need to keep fighting to make sure that this country is one where it doesn't matter what you look like or where you come from, who you love, you can make it if you try."
"Our unfinished business does not depend solely on me or on a Member of Congress or the next President we elect."
"I am—I will still hold the most important office in our democracy, and that's the office of citizen."
"Those things are hard to measure, but those are things that matter deeply."