Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Americans still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less and so they don't hire.
I personally would increase the taxable base above the present ninety thousand. I pay very very little in the way of social security taxes because I make a lot more than ninety thousand and the people in my office pay the full tax.