Barack Obama

Well, let's be clear about who John McCain's fighting for. He's not fighting for Joe the Plumber. He's fighting for Joe the hedge fund manager.

It's time for a fundamental change, and that's why I'm running for President.

It starts with tax relief.

We need honest leadership and real change, and that's why I'm running for President of the United States.

Make no mistake: we are confronting an urgent crisis in Afghanistan, and we have to act.

We're not going to defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries through an occupation of Iraq.

The American people don't want to hear politicians attack each other - you want to hear about how we're going to attack the challenges facing middle class families each and every day.

These are the steps that we must take - right now - to start getting our economy back on track.

Together, we cannot fail; together, we can rise to meet any challenge.

We can't afford another President who ignores the fundamentals of our economy while running up record deficits to fight a war without end in Iraq.

If you want real change - if you want an economy that rewards work, and that works for Main Street and Wall Street; if you want tax relief for the middle class and millions of new jobs.

To succeed, we need leadership that understands the connection between our economy and our strength in the world.

We must recognize that from global economic turmoil to global terrorism, the challenges we face demand American leadership of strong alliances.

I ask you to believe - to believe in yourselves, in each other, and in the future we can build together.

I will make sure those insurance companies can never do that again.

Apparently, what they consider socialistic is my plan to roll back the Bush tax cuts on the very wealthiest Americans, tax cuts that John McCain himself said in 2000 were irresponsible and prevented middle-class tax relief. That's what he…

What I'm trying to do is provide a tax cut for 95 percent of working families. We are going to roll back the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans, those making more than $250,000 a year.

This economic crisis is the final verdict on their failed leadership - and it's time for something new.

I believe that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis, because I believe in this country.

After eight years of Bush-McCain economics, the pie is now shrinking.

I'll stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and invest in companies that create good jobs right here in Florida.

The financial crisis that states, businesses and families are facing didn't just spring up full-blown overnight.

I've proposed $15 billion a year to create five million new green jobs over the next decade.

If we can spend $10 billion a month rebuilding Iraq, we can certainly spend some money to rebuild America.

When we spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, that means less money to fix crumbling roads and bridges here at home.