A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

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.

And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

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

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.