I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Our nation must come together to unite.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

Today, the Senate took an important step forward in cutting the deficit. I commend Senate leadership and the other senators who supported this spending-reduction legislation,

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.