Barack Obama

I know it's easy to be cynical about politics in this country.

We have to take the blinders off the White House.

They want real reform and they're tired of the lobbyists standing in the way.

We've got a politics in Washington that isn't working for the people anymore, and we're going to have to build a movement to overcome the status quo.

To put a whole bunch of Illinois folks to work.

I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war…

Put a whole bunch of Illinois folks to work.

I appreciate the explanations and clarifications offered by the Senator from Wisconsin. The provision in the bill is aimed at requiring the disclosure of bundling, not prohibiting bundling. It must be broadly interpreted by the Federal…

That brings up a question that I wanted to clarify. In a situation when a fundraising event is cohosted by a number of different lobbyists, I am concerned that some might want to avoid reporting bundled contributions by dividing up the…

The Bush administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security. It is not. There are no shortcuts to protecting America.

President Bush has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide. I will provide our intelligence and the law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists…

We can hold true to our values, and in doing so advance those values abroad.

I pleaded that we 'finish the fight with bin Ladin and al Qaeda.'

There is no military solution in Iraq.

If we are serious about having real change in this country, then we have to start putting America's interests ahead of the special interests that are blocking our efforts to create universal health care, an energy policy that focuses on…

That's why I don't take money from Federal lobbyists or PACs, and that's why I have offered the most far-reaching ethics and lobbying reform plan of any candidate in this race.

I'm not afraid of losing the P.R. war to dictators. I'm happy to look them in the eye and say what needs to be said.

I don't want a continuation of Bush/Cheney. I don't want Bush/Cheney-lite. I want a fundamental change.

It's no longer sufficient for us to trot out the old formulas, the old tired phrases. If we want fundamental change, then we can't be afraid to talk to our enemies.

I opposed this war back in 2002 when I was running for the United States Senate.

It's time for America to show the world that we're still the last, best hope of Earth.

We didn't change the world, but we changed those neighborhoods, and I proved that old man wrong.

It's time for a new generation of leadership to save our generation from global catastrophe.

I am proud of my Christian faith. And it informs what I do. But I am a strong believer in the separation of church and state.

We've got to put the national interests ahead of special interests, and that's what I'll do as president of the United States.