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.

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…

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.

There is no military solution in Iraq.

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

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

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.

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.