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I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

I ask you to find your voice and use it not only to choose your elected officials but to shape the issues that will shape our lives.

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.

I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.