Political Quotes

On the recordMay 19, 2008
You spoke of an America where we don't send our sons and daughters on tour after tour of duty to a war that has cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, but has not made us safer.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama discusses the desire for a different approach to military engagement.

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