Barack Obama

I still believe it's a good idea to have a partnership between the White House and grassroots groups, both faith-based and secular.

Make no mistake, as someone who used to teach constitutional law, I believe deeply in the separation of church and state, but I don't believe this partnership will endanger that idea.

I have found for the first time my patriotism challenged, at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears and doubts about who I am and what I stand for.

I remember listening to my grandmother telling stories about her work on a bomber assembly line during World War II. I remember my grandfather handing me his dog tags from his time in Patton's army and understanding that his defense of…

I found, for the first time, my patriotism challenged at times as a result of my own carelessness. More often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears and doubts about who I am and what I stand for.

I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign. And I will not stand idly by when I hear others question mine.

You know what I'm talking about.

Because we are all Americans.

America can only prosper when all Americans prosper – brown, black, white, Asian, and Native American.

I am proud to call her friend, and I know how much we need both Bill and Hillary Clinton as a party and as a country.

But we need them. We need them badly, not just my campaign, but the American people need their service, and their vision, and their wisdom... in the months and years to come.

No matter where we have disagreed, these are the issues that have always united Senator Clinton and myself. They're the causes that unite both of us as Democrats and I believe, at this moment, they are the causes that can unite us as…

I am proud to call her a friend, and I know how much we need both Bill and Hillary Clinton as a party and as a country in the months and years to come.

We can continue spending $10 billion to $12 billion a month in Iraq and leave our troops there for the next 20 or 50 or 100 years. Or we can decide that it's time to be in a responsible, gradual withdrawal from Iraq. That's the choice in…

This is our chance, this is our time to march forward in unity, as one people, to the future.

Together, we inspired tens of millions of people to participate, some to cast ballots for the very first time, others who voted for the first time in a very long time.

I am proud to call her friend. And I know how much we need both Bill and Hillary Clinton as a party and as a country.

But we need them. We need them badly. Not just my campaign, but the American people need their service and their vision and their wisdom in the months and years to come.

No matter where we disagreed, these are the issues that have always united Senator Clinton and myself. They're the causes that unite both of us as Democrats. And I believe at this moment they are the causes that can unite us as Americans…

This is our chance; this is our time to march forward in unity as one people to the future.

We can continue spending $10 to $12 billions a month in Iraq and leave our troops there for the next 20 or 50 or 100 years. Or we can decide that it's time to begin a responsible, gradual withdrawal from Iraq. That's the choice in this…

As somebody who took the same historic journey as Senator Clinton, who watched her campaign and debate, I know first hand how good she is, how tough she is, how passionate she is, how committed she is to the causes that brought all of us…

I think it's Midwestern in some way, which is important and will represent a significant change from the very ideological, very sharp partisanship that we've seen in Washington.

I'm absolutely confident that, with Senator Hillary Clinton and all of you joining our efforts, that not only are we going to win this election, but we're going to change this country and we're going to transform the world.

You might have heard that I don't care about the women's vote. It's absolutely not true. I'm going to do everything I can, not just to get the women's vote, but to deserve it.