"Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope …. Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be …. We are not a collection of red states and blue states. We are the United States of America. And in this moment, in this election, we are ready to believe again."

Barack Obama, Iowa