• To ensure that Government works honestly and effectively to protect the health, safety, and rights of the People;

• To keep America's promise of a social safety net and of economic and educational opportunity that lifts everyone;

• To be good stewards of our nation's Treasury, and of all public resources, for the sake of future generations;

• To preserve America's military readiness and preserve the friendship and trust of other nations;

• To treat the eradication of poverty as our nation's most critical humanitarian goal;

• To treat energy independence as our nation's most critical technological goal;

• And to hold as our guiding principle the belief that we are all our brother's keeper.