People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.