Barack Obama said "I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve them." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordDecember 26, 2007

I chose to run because I believed that the size of these challenges had outgrown the capacity of our broken and divided politics to solve them.

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Remarks in Des Moines

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