Let us honor their valor by providing the care they need and rebuilding the military they love.

The failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics... has stopped us from meeting these challenges.

Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call.

Let us be the generation that finally tackles our health care crisis.

Divided, we are bound to fail.

If you sense, as I sense, that the time is now... then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you.

In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope.

For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union, and building a better America.

I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.

Let us begin this hard work together. Let us transform this nation.