We need more light.

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

This is the moment.

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

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.

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

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.

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.