Obama for America

Hope

"I’m in this race because I want to stop talking about the outrage of 47 million Americans without health care and start actually doing something about it. I expanded health care in Illinois by bringing Democrats and Republicans together. By taking on the insurance industry. And that is how I will make certain that every single American in this country has health care they can count on. And I won’t do it twenty years from now. I won’t do it ten years from now. I will do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States of America.

"I run for President to make sure that every American child has the best education that we have to offer — from the day they are born to the day they graduate from college. And I won’t just talk about how great teachers are — as President, I will reward them for their greatness — by raising salaries and giving them more support. That’s why I’m in this race.

"I am running for President because I am sick and tired of Democrats thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is by talking, and acting, and voting like Republicans."

- Barack Obama, 10 November 2007