Barack Obama

I think the notion that we have a very real and present danger in the nihilistic ideologies of radical Islam, I think most Americans share.

I think part of the reason you were hesitant to talk about the torture issue yesterday had to do with the fact that you don't want to define 'torture' too much, because you want a little bit of wiggle room.

What's the status of our troops, and what's our exit strategy?

And we are now going to be spending at least $200 billion in Iraq, and we have lost over 1,300 lives and it is counting.

Absolutely, but again--I know I am out of time here, but that is true in Sudan.

So the fact that there is a link somewhere between terror and tyranny is not sufficient for us to be making decisions about spending $200 billion to $300 billion or sacrificing the lives of American servicemen and women.

I think it is to move forward. The concern that many of my constituents in Illinois express is that we went into Iraq, at least in their minds, because of a very specific threat of terror, not tyranny but terror.

I would urge that there is a clear signal by the administration in its budgeting process this time out that we are moving forward on this.

It appears to be an entirely open-ended commitment.

If our measure is to bring our troops home, and success is measured by whether Iraqis can secure their own circumstances, and if our best troops in the world are having trouble controlling the situation with 150,000 or so, it sounds like…

I never got quite a clear answer to Senator Biden's question as to how many troops, Iraqi troops...

I think that may be true, in fact, for just the National Guard, alone.

Is the resistance on those reforms coming simply from countries that are in the midst of development, or are we also seeing resistance from allies, like France and Germany and others?

It's unlikely that I'd be sitting here asking you questions

I know that it has a wonderful reputation for bipartisanship

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America, there is the United States of America.

This is a guy who has better prepared for the presidency than anybody I've ever seen. Enormously engaging, enormously caring, and enormously intelligent.

America, we have more work to do.

In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.

We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.