People Asked Me What I Want As

There Are Some Who Ask Us To Believe That If We Want The Best Of Times For Ourselves, The Fit And The Fortunate, Then We'll Just Have To Learn To Live With The Worst Of Times For Millions Of Other Americans - That We're Doomed To Be A Nation Of The Lucky And The Left-out. I Don't Believe It. My Mother Didn't Believe It. Your Ancestors Didn't Believe It. And I Don't Think You Should Believe It.

It Is Not A Government's Obligation To Provide Services, But To See That They Are Provided.

I Watched A Small Man With Thick Calluses On Both Hands Work 15 And 16 Hours A Day. I Saw Him Once Literally Bleed From The Bottoms Of His Feet, A Man Who Came Here Uneducated, Alone, Unable To Speak The Language, Who Taught Me All I Needed To Know About Faith And Hard Work By The Simple Eloquence Of His Example.

It's An Old Story; It's As Old As Our History. The Difference Between Democrats And Republicans Has Always Been Measured In Courage And Confidence. The Republicans Believe That The Wagon Train Will Not Make It To The Frontier Unless Some Of The Old, Some Of The Young, Some Of The Weak, Are Left Behind By The Side Of The Trail. The Strong, The Strong They Tell Us, Will Inherit The Land. We Democrats Believe In Something Else. We Democrats Believe That We Can Make It All The Way With The Whole Family Intact, And We Have More Than Once.

We Work Harder And We Earn Less. Income Inequality Is At The Highest Point In Over A Century. While American Capitalism Never Guaranteed Success, It Did Guarantee Opportunity, For Too Many, The Dream Of Economic Mobility Has Been Replaced With A Nightmare Of Economic Stagnation.