I've got two daughters, nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
- Barack Obama
We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We've got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. ... This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
- Barack Obama
But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.
- Barack Obama
This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.
- Barack Obama
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
- Barack Obama
I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- Barack Obama
I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to -- I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.
- Barack Obama
If I sit down with the leader of Iran, I will send him a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable.... That's not going to be a propaganda coup for the president of Iran.
- Barack Obama
The decisions that have been made in Washington these past six years, and the problems that have been ignored, have put our country in a precarious place.
- Barack Obama
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
- Barack Obama
Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack [heroin] though.
- Barack Obama
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
- Barack Obama
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
- Barack Obama
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
- Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
- Barack Obama
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
- Barack Obama
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
- Barack Obama
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
- Barack Obama
John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
- Barack Obama
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense..
- Barack Obama
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
- Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
- Barack Obama
I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.
- Barack Obama
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
- Barack Obama
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
- Barack Obama
I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy (And was the only U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois to do so). That opposition hasn't changed.
- Barack Obama
She was the cornerstone of our family and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances.
- Barack Obama
Mr Ayers is not involved in my campaign. He has never been involved in this campaign. And he will not advise me in the White House.
- Barack Obama
You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.
- Barack Obama
It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.
- Barack Obama
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.
- Barack Obama
I honor -- we honor -- the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine.
- Barack Obama
I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.
- Barack Obama
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
- Barack Obama
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
- Barack Obama
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
- Barack Obama
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time.
- Barack Obama
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
- Barack Obama
No one is pro-abortion.
- Barack Obama
That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.
- Barack Obama
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
- Barack Obama
This budget tells our veterans that if they want increased funding for the VA they'll have to pay for it themselves.
- Barack Obama
