Barack Obama

I want to make sure we have got the best education for every child that this country has to offer, because, even if -- even if we're investing in -- in green technology, solar and wind, even if we're investing in infrastructure, even if…

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave. But what I've said is that we should not just talk to our friends, we should be willing to engage our enemies as well. That's what diplomacy is all about.

You know, for all their tough talk, one of the things you have to ask yourself is, what are George Bush and John McCain afraid of? Demanding that a country meets all your conditions before you -- before you meet with them, that's not a…

I think these folks should lay off my wife.

If they think that they're going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful because that I find unacceptable; the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family.

More and more seniors are struggling with the cost of everything from gas to groceries.

I will fight every day to extend the promise of a retirement that is dignified and secure when I am President of the United States.

Since the New Deal, we've had that basic understanding in America.

We're not going to help folks reach retirement unless we encourage savings.

It's time to end the outrage of CEOs cashing out while workers lose their pensions.

It's harder to save and harder to retire.

We must be the country where we say that we're all in this together.

I think there is another option that is fairer to working men and women.

Let me be clear: privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it.

Americans who work hard their entire lives have earned the right to retire with dignity and security.

There's not an observer of Middle East politics that would not say that the single biggest contributor to Iran's expanding power in the Middle East is George Bush's policies and our invasion of Iraq.

For him to toss out comments like that, I think, is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination.

I don't take what Bush says personally, but I was offended by what is a continuation of a strategy from this White House, now mimicked by Senator McCain, that replaces strategy and analysis and smart policy with bombast, exaggerations and…

The bill places greater resources into renewable energy and conservation.

This bill is far from perfect.

But with so much at stake, we cannot make the perfect the enemy of the good.

I applaud the Senate's passage today of the Farm Bill, which will provide America's hard-working farmers and ranchers with more support and more predictability.

I think actually has a very good set of arguments to make here.

I want to go mano-a-mano with Bush on this, because I'm the nominee now.

The notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them -- which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration -- is ridiculous.