Barack Obama

Change is facing the threats of the 21st century, not with bluster or fear-mongering or tough talk or suspending due process, but with tough diplomacy and strong alliances and confidence in the ideals that have made this nation the last…

Change is finishing a war against al Qaeda in Afghanistan that we never should have ignored.

Change is ending a war that we never should have started.

Change is giving every child a world-class education by recruiting an army of new teachers with better pay and more support.

Change is an energy policy that puts a price on pollution and makes the oil companies invest their record profits in clean, renewable sources of energy that will create millions of new jobs and leave our children a safer planet.

Change is a tax code that rewards work instead of wealth, by cutting taxes for middle-class families, and senior citizens, and struggling homeowners.

Now, I will leave it up to Senator McCain to explain to the American people whether his policies and positions represent long-held convictions or Washington calculations, but the one thing they don't represent is change.

The Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans that once bothered John McCain's conscience are now his only economic policy.

But this year's Republican primary was a contest to see which candidate could out-Bush the other, and that's a contest that John McCain won.

You know, in her 35 years of public service, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has never given up on her fight for the American people.

You spoke of an America where we don't send our sons and daughters on tour after tour of duty to a war that has cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, but has not made us safer.

You spoke of an America where working families don't have to file for bankruptcy just because a child gets sick.

But the people of Iowa had a different idea.

You know, 15 months ago, in the depths of winter, it was in this great state where we took the first steps of an unlikely journey to change America.

He has spent his life in service to this country, not for the sake of glory or recognition, but because he cares, deeply in his gut, about the causes of justice, and equality, and opportunity.

There is a spirit that brought us here tonight, a spirit of change, and hope, and possibility.

Workers and their communities have a right to know when they are facing a serious risk of a plant closing.

American workers who have committed themselves to their employers expect in return to be treated with a modicum of respect and fairness.

I look forward to working with her to ensure that young people in Guam have the education and opportunities they need to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

I thank Congresswoman Bordallo for her support.

I want to make sure we have got the best education for every child that this country has to offer, because, even if -- even if we're investing in -- in green technology, solar and wind, even if we're investing in infrastructure, even if…

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave. But what I've said is that we should not just talk to our friends, we should be willing to engage our enemies as well. That's what diplomacy is all about.

If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable; the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family.

I think these folks should lay off my wife.

And if people tell you that we can't do it, we can't afford it, you just remind them we're spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. If we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend some of that money right here in the United States…