And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

There has to be a reform within the government that is tangible, that we can actually measure and that we have confidence is going to provide some of the differences that I think are essential to our troops to be able to carry out their mission and to the longer- term interests of our country.

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.