We can still come together as a country.

Americans want to be involved in their government.

People are looking for change right now.

His plan doesn't ram a national health insurance program down our throats.

I think there's such a thing as being too late.

Our primary interest is making sure that whatever government emerges in Pakistan is viewed as legitimate.

We need to make healthcare affordable.

We know the enthusiasm is there, the energy is there.

The people of Iowa and America know what I stand for.

A universal healthcare plan must be practical and achievable.

the kind of change we can believe in

He's the only candidate in either party who can change the way business is done in Washington.

He's the only candidate in this race who's actually taken power away from lobbyists.

Barack understands the issues that matter to folks in the Quad Cities.

I'm confident that he's our best chance to win in November.

You can't fall in line behind the conventional thinking on issues as profound as war and offer yourself as the leader who is best prepared to chart a new and better course for America.

I did not run for the presidency to fulfill some long-held ambition or because I believed it was somehow owed to me.

I know that hope has been the guiding force behind the most improbable changes this country has ever made.

The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result.

I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve them.

Hope is not blind optimism.

We can't afford the same politics of fear that tells Democrats that the only way to look tough on national security is to talk, act, and vote like George Bush Republicans.

Most of all, I believed in the power of the American people to be the real agents of change in this country.

But only if we're willing to work for it and fight for it.

People want an affirmation.