Barack Obama

Israel's security is sacrosanct.

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…

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

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

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

She's an outstanding public servant.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I thought she was a good public servant.

To my mind, we were just abiding by the rules that had been set up.

Today he said the general election begins next week, after the last two state primaries wrap up. He's confident he'll be the next president of the United States, as are his challengers.

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

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.