Barack Obama

And you can rest assured that, when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country -- and we will win that fight -- she will be central to that victory.

It's not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.

Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign.

The problem is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 Presidents. Bush 43 added $4…

This was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless.

I will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in - but start leaving we must.

I emphasized to her what an extraordinary race that she has run and said that there are not too many people who understand exactly how hard she has been working.

She's an outstanding public servant.

Father Pfleger, who is somebody who I've known, who I consider a friend, who has done tremendous work in Chicago. But made offensive statements that have no place in our politics and in the pulpit.

We also don't want a church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes.

I have no idea how it will impact my presidential campaign, but I know it's the right thing to do for the church and for our family.

She is an outstanding public servant and she and I will be working together in November.

I suspect if you were in my shoes it seems plausible at least that you wouldn't want your church experience to be a political circus.

I am not going to approach this as a political exercise.

My faith is not contingent on the particular church that I belong to.

There's no doubt that had Reverend Wright's controversial statements not surfaced then this would not have been as -- this would not have been a prominent issue.

What has drawn so many Caribbean men and women to America is the same idea that drew my own father to America many years ago -- that America is a place where our dreams for ourselves and our families can come true.

My suspicion at that time, and Michelle, I think, shared this concern, was that it was going to be very difficult to continue our membership there so long as I was running for president.

Caribbean Heritage Month isn't only about celebrating the common past between the United States and Caribbean nations; it's about securing our common future.

I don't want to consider Christianity a place to avoid the real problems in the world.

I thought she was a good public servant.

I'm deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause.

But we know in our hearts we are ready for change.

If you couldn't run a successful petition drive, then that raised questions in terms of how effective a representative you were going to be.