I have this kind of curious notion that I think actually most voters in America make their own decision about who they believe should be the president of the United States. I don't think you can tell them what to do.
We know better, but we don't act because we don't want to look, ... The Superdome made those people impossible to ignore, but we could look down the streets of every city in America and see enough poor and forgotten families to fill all the sports stadiums in America.
I believe in an America where the family you're born into never controls your destiny,
To be true to our values, our country must build a working society ? an America where everyone who works hard finally has the rewards to show for it,
I know that John Kerry will make this country stronger and more secure for my children and for your children, ... And he will build an America that's stronger at home and respected in the world.
While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty.
One of the things that I hope we will do is look at this as an opportunity ? to shine a bright light on poverty in America and do something about it nationally,
You and I together can change all this, ... We can build one America where everybody has the same chance.
It's not about John Kerry's past or the president's past, ... This election is about the future and the new ideas we have that will change America so that it works for all of us.