"I think you have to have somebody from outside Washington who has proven that he can get the job done."
"My campaign has been about change from the very beginning."
"I just don't think there's any way Washington is going to be changed if we just send back the same people, just give them different chairs."
"My ads had been focused on issue differences between myself and the other candidates."
"Having Barack Obama as the leader of the Democratic Party means that we're going to have to have somebody who goes up against him, who is not a long-term senator."
"It's going to take a person who is himself an innovator, like myself, who has the experience to bring change to Washington."
"People across the country are saying that Washington is fundamentally broken and has to be changed."
"There's no way that our party would be successful in the fall if we put forward a long-serving senator to stand up against Barack Obama's message of change."
"He's a Senator killer."
"Well, people across the country are saying that Washington is fundamentally broken and has to be changed."
"I want to go to Washington to bring to Washington the kind of can-do, change experience that I have had everywhere I have been."