I can do a better job than George Bush, of leading America to reconnect to its own ideals and values, win our friends and allies back, win respect and influence and do a better job of making America safe.

I will answer them.

I want to make it clear that I am the strongest candidate to take on George Bush.

There is nobody who knows me in Washington and nobody who has followed this issue who doesn't realize that I've been one of the leading champions in the United States Congress for campaign finance reform and for changing the way money…

We need a nominee of our party who has the ability to stand up to him and go to toe to toe and point out to Americans that we actually can fight a more effective war on terror, that I can make America safer than George Bush is making us…

I came in, I'm sure, challenged as many of you here in this room were by the call to action of President Kennedy and the notion that politics can be a noble profession.

I'm proud that I've said no to the Political Action Committee Money. And if you look at George Bush and his crowd, they are the world champions in terms of special interest giveaways, the drug company, the oil companies, Halliburton, the…

I have been one of the leading champions in the United States Congress for campaign finance reform and for changing the way money affects American politics.

I'm the only United States senator who has been elected four times who voluntarily has refused to ever take in any of my one races one dime of Political Action Committee Special Interest Money.

What the White House is doing is actually almost laughable. I mean, I really do find it amusing.

I am the only candidate in this race who has a measurable, consistent, 35-year record of standing up against powerful interests in America.