Barack Obama

I don't accept that we should be still sending eight hundred million dollars a day, part to hostile nations because of our addiction to foreign oil.

I commend Columbia University and its student body for immediately condemning this tragic act.

We are focused on building a true precinct-level grassroots organization in each of the 1,754 precincts in Nevada.

As a nation, we have an obligation to act swiftly to address any form of racial injustice.

When I'm President, the American people won't have to spend record amounts on lobbying to get their voice heard in Washington.

I will close tax loopholes for big corporations, provide 90% of working Americans with a tax cut, and pass the strongest lobbying reform in history.

If there was ever a doubt that Washington lobbyists don't actually represent real Americans, it's the fact that they stopped leaders of both parties from requiring elite investment firms to pay their fair share of taxes.

I am proud of the policy work we have done on this campaign and through Mark's leadership we have built a team of key advisors from the ground up that will continue to offer new and innovative approaches to the challenges this country…

I know that change makes for good campaign rhetoric, the word change on a bumper sticker. But, when these same people actually had a chance to make change happen, they didn't lead.

Today I want to lay out the second part of my plan - a set of proposals that will allow America to lead the world in combating global climate change.

I will let them know that America is up to the challenge.

Global warming is a grave and growing threat to our national security.

We will start by dramatically improving the efficiency of our buildings, which currently account for nearly half of all carbon emissions in America today.

We can't afford to wait any longer.

There's no more pressing challenge facing our country than the threat of climate change.

It is time the world could point to America again.

I want the leaders of Europe and Asia; of Africa and South America to point to our diplomacy and our engagement and our ingenuity as the light that led us toward a new energy future in our time.

When it comes to the issue that will determine the very future of life on this Earth, we are still Earth's best hope.

And if we act now and we act boldly, it doesn't have to be.

Believe me, the production people can do it if they really try.

We can't afford the same kind of caution when the future of our security is at stake.

Make no mistake - developing the next generation of energy will be one of the greatest challenges that this generation of Americans will ever face.

Leadership isn't about telling people what they want to hear - it's about telling them what they need to hear.

Solving our global warming problem is the moral, business, policy and political challenge of our generation.

It will not be easy. It will not come without cost or without sacrifice.