“Democrats have gone further and further and further to the left with no end in sight.”
“New Yorkers deserve the choice to endure less suffering, not by shortening their lives, but by shortening their deaths.”
“The fact is that she agrees with them from a policy standpoint, even if she doesn't couch herself in the same title of socialist.”

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On the recordNovember 29, 2007
We cannot give the boy back the parents he lost or the woman back the future she had dreamed of.
Said by
Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
Source
presidency.ucsb.edu

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Statement by Senator Obama on World AIDS Day

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