That trust is simple: America will be there for you just as you have been there for America.

It's time to turn the page on a politics that has turned its back on rural America.

My call for a new foreign policy is based on the same thing that informed my opposition to the war in Iraq: common sense not conventional Washington thinking.

We need to restore our standing in the world to combat common enemies.

Think of what we can achieve together if we change the conventional thinking that's squandering America's reputation in the world.

I'm running on my judgment and I'll tell the American people where I stand.

We have to take the blinders off the White House.

I know it's easy to be cynical about politics in this country.

They want real reform and they're tired of the lobbyists standing in the way.

We've got a politics in Washington that isn't working for the people anymore, and we're going to have to build a movement to overcome the status quo.

To put a whole bunch of Illinois folks to work.