Barack Obama

I will fight every day to extend the promise of a retirement that is dignified and secure.

I have known Tim Russert since I first spoke at the convention in 2004. He's somebody who, over time, I came to consider not only a journalist, but a friend. There wasn't a better interviewer in television, not a more thoughtful analyst of…

I've known Tim Russert since I first spoke at the convention in 2004. He's somebody who, over time, I came to consider not only a journalist but a friend. There wasn't a better interviewer in television. Not a more thoughtful analyst of…

A secure retirement is no longer a guarantee for the middle class.

We're going to continue our dialogue in a few moments, but I want to start by talking a little bit about my plan to provide meaningful tax relief for working people.

Those are the kind of solutions that will make a difference for working Americans-and that's the kind of change we'll be discussing on this tour.

It’s time to turn the page.

I am running to lead this country in a new direction.

We can't keep driving a wider and wider gap between the few who are rich and the rest who struggle to keep pace.

I'll reform our tax code to benefit the middle class instead of the big corporations.

I'll provide real relief from the housing crisis by creating a foreclosure prevention fund, providing a tax break for homeowners, and cracking down on fraudulent lenders.

We will provide real tax relief for the middle class by cutting taxes for 150 million Americans.

Not when I'm President.

But I also think these folks should lay off my wife.

We don't need any lectures from a campaign that waited fifteen months to purge the lobbyists from their staff, and only did so because they said it was a 'perception problem.' It's too bad their campaign is still rife with lobbyist…

I'll put a middle class tax cut into the pockets of hardworking families.

I will do everything in my power to see to it that those resources get to the people who need them as swiftly as possible.

My heart goes out to the families in Illinois and across the Midwest, who have been forced to flee their own homes, and leave their businesses and communities behind.

It's time we had an economy that worked for companies and consumers alike.

While we cannot assure them that their communities will be rebuilt overnight, we can assure them that they will be rebuilt.

There is something fundamentally un-American about that.

It doesn't take a lot of conversations for you to realize that people are hurting.

This is yet another sign of the failed economic policies of the Bush administration that John McCain seeks to extend.

You don't have to read the stock tickers or scan the headlines in the financial sections to understand the seriousness of the situation we're in right now. You just have to go to Pennsylvania and listen to the man who lost his job but…

America, this is our moment. This is our time; our time to turn the page on the policies of the past.