Barack Obama

I strongly condemn the tragic terrorist attack in Pakistan, and my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.

We are not looking to simply abandon them to their own devices.

When I'm President, we're not going to gamble with Social Security.

It's unacceptable that women in this country are losing thousands of dollars each year.

We must forge a deep and lasting partnership with Pakistan, and with nations around the world, to root out and destroy al Qaeda and its affiliates.

It strikes me that for us to deliver a message of clarity to the Iraqis and to the surrounding countries that we are not looking at a permanent occupation, but we want to partner with you to structure a stable and secure Iraq.

I want that done as quickly as possible so that we are not exposing that.

It is intolerable for us to have Al Qaeda base camps maintained in their territories that are planning to attack the U.S. homeland.

Today's attack demonstrates the grave and urgent threat that al Qaeda and its affiliates pose to the United States, to Pakistan, and to the security of all nations.

That's why I helped pass a law in Illinois to give 330,000 more women protection from paycheck discrimination.

After spending the entire campaign saying I haven't been in Washington long enough, he apparently now is willing to assign me responsibility for all of Washington's failures. I think it's pretty clear that Senator McCain is a little…

We want to protect Main Street, not just Wall Street.

You don't do it in a day. We have got to do it in an intelligent, systematic, thoughtful fashion.

I've got some visions and I've got some principles, we want to protect Main Street not just Wall Street.

What we're looking at right now is to provide the Treasury and the Federal Reserve with as broad authority as is necessary, to stabilize markets and to maintain credit.

You don't do it in a day. We've got to do it in an intelligent, systematic, thoughtful fashion.

I think it's pretty clear that Senator McCain's a little panicked right now.

We did not arrive at this crisis by some accident of history.

Swift and unprecedented action to shore up Wall Street must come alongside equally swift and serious efforts to help struggling families on Main Street, create new jobs, and grow our middle-class once more.

We must take equally swift and serious action to help lift the burdens they face every day.

Truly, we are all in this together.

This is a time for resolve and for leadership.

This isn't a time for fear or panic.

We are facing one of the most serious financial crises in this nation's history.

For too long, this Administration has been willing to hit the fast-forward button in helping distressed Wall Street firms.