Barack Obama

A universal healthcare plan must be practical and achievable.

The kind of change we can believe in

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

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

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

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

Don't, you know, try something different because, you know, that's going to be too risky. You know, you don't know what you might get. So even though you know what's been done in the past doesn't work, stick with it. I know that that's not…

We have the chance, maybe for the first time in a generation, to finally come together and start tackling problems that were there long before George Bush ever took office.

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.

People want an affirmation.

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

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

That's change you can believe in.

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

Hope is not blind optimism.

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.

I don't need any lectures on how to bring about change, because I haven't just talked about it on the campaign trail.

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

Because we are at a defining moment in our history.

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.

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

Don't, you know, try something different because, you know, that's going to be too risky. You know, you don't know what you might get. So, even though you know what's been done in the past doesn't work, stick with it. I know that that's…

We have the chance, maybe for the first time in a generation, to finally come together and start tackling problems that were there long before George W. Bush ever took office.

We're building a statewide movement of Iowans from every corner of the state who are ready to put the divisive politics of the past behind us and bring to Washington the kind of change we can believe in.

I am grateful to Rep. Ford for signing onto our campaign and adding his support and his voice to our team in Iowa.