"I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now."

"And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me."

"And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace."

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"It is a enduring truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

"The beauty of the unknown is that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."