I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.

Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break.

We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.

I support the Second Amendment. I lived in Arkansas for 18 wonderful years. I represented upstate New York. I understand and respect the tradition of gun ownership. It goes back to the founding of our country.

I prepared to be president. And I think that's a good thing.

Let's defend overtime and go after wage theft.

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.