Barack Obama

My priority is going to be, how do we grow the economy?

We are facing the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime.

I know what a privilege it is to serve in the White House, and am humbled by the responsibility we owe the American people.

We need a rescue plan for the middle class that invests in immediate efforts to create jobs.

It is not going to be quick, and it is not going to be easy for us to dig ourselves out of the hole that we are in.

Immediately after I become president, I'm going to confront this economic crisis head on by taking all necessary steps to ease the credit crisis.

Depression across the land. Saw a nation...

We're going to cut some programs that don't work in order to provide health care.

You have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House.

We're going to have to cut programs some programs that don't work in order to provide health care.

Sasha and Malia, I love you both more than you can imagine, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House.

He wants to make sure that his vision is the one that is enacted. He is not, again, he is not thinking short term.

I will compete in Florida. I'm going to compete here in the South, Virginia and North Carolina. I will have the audacity to challenge the Republican foundation in Ohio and Indiana.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

From parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

It's been a long time coming. But tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

From parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared. A new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those -- to those who would…

The road ahead will be long, our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term, but, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people, will get…

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your…

If there is anyone out there who still doubt that America has a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your…

This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is only the chance for us to make that change.

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to - it belongs to you.

Let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility.

I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

Change has come to America.