Barack Obama

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.

I think the question hit the nail on the head.

If you want to talk about irresponsibility and naivete, look at her vote to authorize George Bush to send our troops into Iraq without an exit plan.

I would. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them -- which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration -- is ridiculous.

When are we going to stand up and do something about this? We have talked about it too long. We have got to stand up to the insurance companies and the drug companies that Barack just spoke about.

Absolutely it does. John and I have a disagreement. John thinks that the only way we get universal coverage is to mandate coverage. I think that the problem is not that people are trying to avoid getting health care coverage.

As president of the United States, my commitment on issues like education, my commitment on issues like health care is to close the disparities and the gaps, because that's what's really going to solve the race problem in this country.

If children feel as if the fact that they have a different surname or they have got a different skin color is not going to impede their dreams, then I am absolutely confident that we're going to be able to move forward on the challenges…

The fact is I don't take PAC money and I don't take lobbyist money and the bundlers, the reason you know who is raising money for me, Mike, is because I helped push through a law this past session to disclose that.

We want an end to this war. And we want diplomacy and peace. Not only can we save the environment; we can create jobs and opportunity. We're tired of fear. We're tired of division. We want something new. We want to turn the page.

The time for us to ask how we were going to get out of Iraq was before we went in.

I believe in the core decency of the American people, and I think they want to get beyond some of our racial divisions.

At this point, I think we can be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in. But we have to send a clear message to the Iraqi government, as well as to the surrounding neighbors, that there is no military solution to the…

I will sign this universal health care plan by the end of my first term in office as your President.

I have a universal health care plan that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premiums by up to $2500 a year.

It will take all of us to stand up to a drug and insurance industry that spent $1 billion in lobbying to block health care reform.

That's not just a Latino problem or an African-American problem; that is an American problem that we have to solve.

I just introduced this bill on nonproliferation -- you know, nuclear weapons that are out there, loose nukes in former Soviet territory.

Doing the lord's work is a thread that runs through our politics since the very beginning.

Doing the Lord's work is a thread that runs through our politics since the very beginning.

No child's destiny should be determined before he takes his first step.

The moral question about poverty in America - How can a country like this allow it? - has an easy answer: we can't.

The Bush administration has also done a poor job of consulting its NATO allies about the deployment of a missile defense system.

The reason that they're listed as donors is because, if they purchase it through the campaign, and it goes into the campaign coffers, it would be a violation of campaign laws if we did not list that. So all we're doing is abiding by the…