"Senator Obama is running to be redistributionist in chief. I'm running to be commander in chief. Sen. Obama is running to punish the successful, I'm running to make everyone successful. ... We need a president who has actually fought for change and made it happen. The next president won't have time to get used to the office."
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said in Hershey, Penn., where he also said: "Nothing is inevitable, we never give up."
"John McCain has ridden shotgun as George Bush has driven our economy toward a cliff, and now he wants to take the wheel and step on the gas. When it comes to the issue of taxes, saying that John McCain is running for a third Bush term isn't being fair to George Bush."
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said at Widener University in Chester, Penn., where he told the 9,000 gathered despite a steady rain: "I just want all of you to know that if we see this kind of dedication on Election Day, there is no way that we're not going to bring change to America."
"Our opponent is not being candid with you about his tax plans. It is not mean-spirited, and it is not negative campaigning to call out someone on their record. ... 'Joe the Plumber' said it sounded to him like socialism. Now is not the time to experiment with that."
GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Hershey, Penn., where she told supporters: "You are such a welcoming and patriotic state. I know we have many patriots in the crowd today."
You can't call yourself a maverick when all you've been the last eight years is a sidekick. ... I know Halloween is coming but John McCain dressed up as an agent of change, that costume just doesn't fit, folks."
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden in Florida, where he said: "How you go, goes the nation."
