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At press conference following Reverend Jeremiah Wright's speech at Press Club event, April 29, 2008. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.
And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

At San Francisco fundraiser, April 6, 2008. 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

Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, March 29, 2008. The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't.
But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes comes out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society.
Barack Obama

Interview with WIP, March 20, 2008. John McCain once opposed these tax cuts - he rightly called them unfair and fiscally irresponsible.
But now he has done an about face and wants to make them permanent, just like he wants a permanent occupation in Iraq.
No matter what the costs, no matter what the consequences, John McCain seems determined to carry out a third Bush-term. That's an outcome America can't afford.
Because of the Bush-McCain policies, our debt has ballooned.
Barack Obama

Speech on the cost of war, March 20, 2008. 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

Speech on race, March 18, 2008. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Barack Obama

Regarding inflammatory racial remarks of his Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah White, speech on race, March 18, 2008. 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

Speech on race, March 18, 2008. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.
Barack Obama

Speech following Super Tuesday results, Feb 5, 2008. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Barack Obama

Interview in Christianity Today, January 22, 2008. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics who will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come.
We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people. Yes we can.
Barack Obama

Speech following New Hampshire Primary January 8, 2008. 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

About his marijuana use, When asked "did you inhale?", November 2007. 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

CNN/YouTube debate, July 23, 2007. Nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people from this whole process. And I would like to see — if we could get some movement from Palestinian leadership — what I'd like to see is a loosening up of some of the restrictions on providing aid directly to the Palestinian people.
Barack Obama

Response to question in Iowa, March 11, 2007 in "Iowans get an up-close view of Obama " in USA Today. In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government.
One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
Barack Obama

Profile in The Independent Magazine, March 10, 2007. The Israeli people, and Prime Minister Olmert, have made clear that they are more than willing to negotiate an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that will result in two states living side by side in peace and security.
But the Israelis must trust that they have a true Palestinian partner for peace. That is why we must strengthen the hands of Palestinian moderates who seek peace and that is why we must maintain the isolation of Hamas and other extremists who are committed to Israel's destruction.
Barack Obama

Speech at AIPAC, March 2, 2007. We can build a more hopeful America. And that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still live, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Speech at Illinois capital Springfield February 2007, announcing he is entering 2008 US presidential race. 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

In webcast to supporters on his website, January 2007. Voicing skepticism of President Bush's plans for a US military buildup in Iraq, January 2007. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack [heroin] though.
Barack Obama

Admitting taking cannabis and cocaine as a teenager, in 1995 memoir 'Dreams from My Father'. I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Barack Obama

You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them.
And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

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