After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run toward danger and gotten sickened by it. Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have health care because of work that I did, and children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done.

The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.

Nobody should want to wake up on November 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done.

Whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either.

It's also important that we look at the entire global situation. There's no doubt that we have other problems with Iran. But personally, I'd rather deal with the other problems having put that lid on their nuclear program than still to be facing that.

I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.