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

If I were starting from scratch, if we didn't have a system in which employers typically provided health care, I would probably go with a single payer system.

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

I am absolutely convinced that, white, black, Latino, Asian, people want to move beyond our divisions.

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

When Senator Clinton said -- President Clinton says that I wasn't opposed to the war from the start or says it's a fairy tale that I opposed the war. That is simply not true.

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

My core belief is that people desperately want coverage. They desperately want it.

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

What I said was is that Ronald Reagan was a transformative political figure because he was able to get Democrats to vote against their economic interests to form a majority to push through their agenda, an agenda that I objected to.

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

When Senator Clinton says -- or President Clinton says that I wasn't opposed to the war from the start or says it's a fairy tale that I opposed the war, that is simply not true.

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

I feel pretty bad. But let's just respond to the example that was just thrown out.

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

We have got to appeal to Independents and Republicans in order to build a working majority to move an agenda forward.

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

I think that part of what the people are looking for right now is somebody who's going to solve problems and not resort to the same typical politics that we have seen in Washington.

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

What she said wasn't true. We account for every single dollar that we propose.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 18, 2008

[T]he Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 18, 2008

The Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 17, 2008

Senator Clinton has said she's ready to lead from day one. But it's important on day one to get it right, whether you're talking about war or you're talking about economic proposals. And one of the things that I have tried to do, I've been…

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Jan 17, 2008

It's important, on day one, to get it right, whether you're talking about war or you're talking about economic proposals.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 17, 2008

I worried that there was some pressure being put on union voters to vote a certain way, which would be to vote for Barack Obama.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 17, 2008

At least according to what we have been told, it leaves out 50 million working Americans.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Jan 17, 2008

I hope that there was some pressure being put on union voters to vote a certain way, which would be to vote for Barack Obama. And I hoped that they would still go to these caucuses and vote the way they wanted to vote.

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