I have always believed that, if you're tough, you don't have to talk about it. And I have got a 20-year track of fighting on behalf of working families.

You can decide whether we are going to travel the same worn path or whether we will chart a new course that offers real hope for the future.

Now is our turn to follow in the footsteps of all those generations who sacrificed and struggled and faced down the greatest odds to perfect our improbable union.

In every election, politicians come to your cities and your towns and they tell you what you want to hear. And they make big promises.

This is our chance to say not this year. This is our chance to say not this time. We have a choice in this election.

We already know John McCain offers more of the same. So the question is not whether the other party will bring about change to Washington, we know they won't. The question is, will we?

But don't ever forget that you have the power to change this country.

Real change doesn't begin in the halls of Washington, but on the streets of America.

In the end, this election is still our best chance to solve the problems we've been talking about for decades; as one nation, as one people.

That's our task. That's our job. Let's get to work.

We can be a party that says there's no problem with taking money from Washington lobbyists; the moral lobbyists, the drug lobbyists and the insurance lobbyists.

We can tell everyone what they need to hear about the challenges we face. We can seek to regain not just an office but the trust of the American people; that their leaders in Washington will tell them the truth. That's the choice in this…