Nobody who works full time should have to raise children in poverty or in fear that one health emergency or pink slip will drive them over the cliff.
What we have been preparing for the entire time is a nomination process that's going to go well into March. We're prepared for that. We have the resources to do that.
Why would anyone want to take overtime pay away from as many as six million Americans at a time when they need that money the most?
We are past all the preliminary stages. It's time for you, the people of South Carolina, to choose a president,
I've been looking forward to the time when this is a two-person race and people will focus on Senator Kerry and myself, ... It now appears that we're very close to that place, and maybe even there.
We're past all this preliminary stuff. It's time to choose a president.
I know that I have only a small window of time to deliver a message. And I get into a zone of ""Just deliver the information"". But when I'm watching the show, as a viewer, then it's very emotional to me.
I know John Kerry well, ... I spent six years working with him in the Senate, and we spent a lot of time on the campaign trail together. And I'll tell you one thing: He has what it takes inside to be president of the United States -- backbone, strength, courage, heart.
The truth is he is the one man who can put an end to these ads. This is a moment of truth for the president. It is time for him to step forward and say three words: Stop these ads.
This president is shifting the tax burden right on the backs of working, middle-class Americans, ... If he spent some time out here with these middle-class families, he'd understand they can't take it.
This is the time for you and I together to set our sights on what is possible, what we can do together, ... It's time for us to quiet the skeptics, to lift the voices of those who want to strive, to seek, to never yield on these moral issues that tug at the soul of this country.