Suppressing Ideas Never Succeeds In Making Them

I Can't Even Get A Credit Card Without Three Credit Bureaus Saying I'm Good Enough.

Absolutely. I Think, I Think The American People, At Their Core, Are A Decent People. I Think That We Still Have Prejudice In Our Midst, But I Think That The Vast Majority Of Americans Are Willing, Are Willing To Judge People On The Basis Of Their Ideas And Their Character. And In The Case Of The Presidency, I Think What's Most Important Is Whether The American People Think That You Understand Their Hopes And Dreams And Struggles And Whether They Think You Can Actually Help Them Achieve Those Hopes And Dreams.

So We Have A Choice To Make. We Can Once Again Let Washington's Bad Habits Stand In The Way Of Progress. Or We Can Pull Together And Say That In America, Our Destiny Isn't Written For Us But By Us. We Can Place Good Ideas Ahead Of Old Ideological Battles, And A Sense Of Purpose Above The Same Narrow Partisanship. We Can Act Boldly To Turn Crisis Into Opportunity And, Together, Write The Next Great Chapter In Our History And Meet The Test Of Our Time.

No Job In America Should Go Unfilled Because Somebody Doesn't Have The Right Skills To Get That Job, Nobody. So, If There's A Job Open, We Should Train Those Folks Right Away So That They Can Do The Job.

I Want To Reform The Tax Code So That It's Simple, Fair, And Asks The Wealthiest Households To Pay Higher Taxes On Incomes Over $250,000 - The Same Rate We Had When Bill Clinton Was President; The Same Rate We Had When Our Economy Created Nearly 23 Million New Jobs, The Biggest Surplus In History, And A Lot Of Millionaires To Boot.