I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

Essentially what my campaign is about, it`s about anything, this is saying we`ve got bring that money back into the middle class and working families. We have to create jobs, we have to raise, we have to make public colleges and universities tuition free so kids in that community who are studying hard understand that some day they will be able to go to college.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights.

So as a nation, we have a right to be very proud of the successes that we have seen because of the struggle of millions of people to create a less discriminatory society. That is something we should be proud of, but there is one struggle in which not only have we not succeeded but in which we are losing ground and that is the fundamental struggle for economic justice.

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of this country.