Barack Obama

I believe that cutting benefits is not the right answer.

I intend to provide it.

The early states are critical to us because I am not as well-known as Senator Clinton.

I meet too many seniors all across the country who are struggling with the limited Social Security benefits that they have.

I am sick and tired of Democrats thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is by talking and acting like George Bush Republicans.

I have not been on the national scene as long as some of the other candidates in this race.

I'm the only one who, in 2002, opposed the war in Iraq.

I think the American people need somebody who can bring the country together.

The politics of hope doesn't mean hoping that people aren't going to point out differences between you and other candidates.

The name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot.

I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of now.'

We have a chance to bring the country together in a new majority.

I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.

I don't want to wake up four years from now and find out that millions of Americans still lack health care because we couldn't take on the insurance industry.

You shouldn't have to lose your wages or quit your job to care for a newborn baby, or a sick child, or an elderly parent.

I'll be a President who stands up for the American family.

That's wrong for America's children, and American families.

You shouldn't have less opportunity because you are a single mom.

As the son of a single mother, I don't accept an America that forces women to choose between their kids and their careers.

Americans who work hard their entire lives have earned a retirement that is secure and dignified.

You've got to have someone in the White House who believes it's an outrage.

I have a track record of having done something about them, and passed substantial legislation that curbs their influence.

I think that the voters should be concerned that she is running the textbook, classic Washington campaign.

I think that's the kind of politics that has lead to gridlock and an ineffective Washington.

I will bring this war to an end as quickly as can be done with the safety of the troops in mind.