Political Quotes

Barack Obama

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Apr 21, 2008

In every election, politicians come to your cities and your towns and they tell you what you want to hear. And they make big promises.

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Apr 21, 2008

We can be a party that says there's no problem with taking money from Washington lobbyists; the moral lobbyists, the drug lobbyists and the insurance lobbyists.

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Apr 21, 2008

We already know John McCain offers more of the same. So the question is not whether the other party will bring about change to Washington, we know they won't. The question is, will we?

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Apr 20, 2008

There are three candidates left. Who do you want answering that 3 a.m. phone call: the person who got Iraq wrong or the person who got Iraq right? The person who paid attention to the intelligence or the person who didn't? The person who…

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Apr 20, 2008

You and I together, we won't just win Pennsylvania. We will win this nomination.

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Apr 20, 2008

So, we were told, the candidates, that they wouldn't count. So, we didn't campaign there. My name wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan. Senator Clinton agreed that they wouldn't count, until it turned out that we were winning.

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Apr 20, 2008

I'm not predicting a win. I'm predicting it's going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect.

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Apr 20, 2008

I'm not going to take money from lobbyists. And people said, 'Well, that can't be done.' Except they didn't understand that you were going to finance this campaign with $25 contributions and $50 contributions and $100 contributions. And so…

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Apr 16, 2008

I will tell you, it does not get much more fun than these debates. They are inspiring events. Last night I think we set a new record, because it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the…

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