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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 21, 2008

We can be a party that says there's no problem with taking money from Washington lobbyists; the moral lobbyists, the drug lobbyists and the insurance lobbyists.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 21, 2008

In every election, politicians come to your cities and your towns and they tell you what you want to hear. And they make big promises.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 21, 2008

You can decide whether we are going to travel the same worn path or whether we will chart a new course that offers real hope for the future.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 21, 2008

Real change doesn't begin in the halls of Washington, but on the streets of America.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 21, 2008

We can tell everyone what they need to hear about the challenges we face. We can seek to regain not just an office but the trust of the American people; that their leaders in Washington will tell them the truth. That's the choice in this…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 21, 2008

Now is our turn to follow in the footsteps of all those generations who sacrificed and struggled and faced down the greatest odds to perfect our improbable union.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 21, 2008

In the end, this election is still our best chance to solve the problems we've been talking about for decades; as one nation, as one people.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 20, 2008

You and I together, we won't just win Pennsylvania. We will win this nomination.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 20, 2008

I'm not going to take money from lobbyists. And people said, 'Well, that can't be done.' Except they didn't understand that you were going to finance this campaign with $25 contributions and $50 contributions and $100 contributions. And so…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 20, 2008

There are three candidates left. Who do you want answering that 3 a.m. phone call: the person who got Iraq wrong or the person who got Iraq right? The person who paid attention to the intelligence or the person who didn't? The person who…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 20, 2008

I'm not predicting a win. I'm predicting it's going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 20, 2008

So, we were told, the candidates, that they wouldn't count. So, we didn't campaign there. My name wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan. Senator Clinton agreed that they wouldn't count, until it turned out that we were winning.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 16, 2008

When you're running for the presidency, then you've got to expect it. And you've just got to kind of let it -- you know, you know. That's what you got to do.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 16, 2008

I do think it's important to recognize that it's not helping that person who's sitting at the kitchen table, who is trying to figure out how to pay the bills at the end of the month.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 16, 2008

I will tell you, it does not get much more fun than these debates. They are inspiring events. Last night I think we set a new record, because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the…

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