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

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.

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.

That's change you can believe in.

People want an affirmation.

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…

Because we are at a defining moment in our history.

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.

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.

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'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.