"We could save all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling, if everybody was just inflating their tires and getting regular tune-ups."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
"I have repeatedly said that many of the predatory loans that were made in the mortgage system did target African-American and Latino communities."
Barack Obama on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
Obama said his proposed $1,000 emergency energy rebate "will be enough to offset the increased cost of gas for a working family over the next 4 months."
Barack Obama on Friday, August 1st, 2008 in a town hall in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"Wild Bill Hickok had his first duel in the town square here. And the family legend is that he is a distant cousin of mine."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in Springfield, Mo. >>Details
"I have little doubt that we've moved into recession at this point."
Barack Obama on Saturday, July 12th, 2008 in a conversation with reporters aboard plane >>Details
"For at least a year now, I have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three."
Barack Obama on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 in Afghanistan >>Details
"We've heard talk about curbing our use of fossil fuels in nearly every State of the Union address since the oil embargo of 1973."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in a speech in Dayton, Ohio >>Details
Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 11th, 2008 in the campaign's energy plan. >>Details
"Our National Guard, as we saw in the Midwest flooding, can't function as effectively as it could. I was talking to National Guard representatives. Fifteen of their 17 helicopters in this region were overseas during the flooding."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 in Chicago >>Details
Obama says his bill "reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent."
Barack Obama on Monday, June 30th, 2008 in a TV ad. >>Details
"These steps (a middle-class tax cut, national health care plan, foreclosure prevention fund, Social Security fix and more) are all paid for."
Barack Obama on Monday, June 16th, 2008 in Flint, Mich. >>Details
Barack Obama "extended health care for wounded troops who’d been neglected."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"More than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children."
Barack Obama on Sunday, June 15th, 2008 in a speech at a Chicago church >>Details
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
We're borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia "to finance this war" in Iraq.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details
"Ronald Reagan met with Gorbachev; Kennedy met with Khruschev; and Nixon met with Mao — and these were folks who have done horrendous damage not only to their own countries but to other countries."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 in an interview on Fox News' America’s Election HQ >>Details
"I think we came down here (to Florida) one time ... but we weren’t actively fundraising here."
Barack Obama on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
"I had an uncle ... who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 26th, 2008 in a speech in Las Cruces, N.M. >>Details
"Ten years ago, John McCain offered a bill that said he would ban a candidate from paying registered lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 in Tampa, Fla. >>Details
A gas tax holiday is a gimmick that "every economist says will just go into the pockets of the oil companies."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in a Q&A in Cape Girardeau, Mo. >>Details
"NATO hasn’t provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 in Cape Girardeau, Miss. >>Details
"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa. >>Details
A gas tax holiday "would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 5th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."
Barack Obama on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Philadelphia >>Details
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn’t take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
The United States is "seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in an interview with theadvocate.com >>Details
"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."
Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in a television ad. >>Details
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."
Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show. >>Details
"I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas >>Details
He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in Austin, Texas >>Details
"We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating."
Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th, 2008 in an e-mail message sent to voters before Super Tuesday. >>Details
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a speech in Iowa >>Details
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
Barack Obama on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"I do provide universal health care."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
"I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
Obama “won health care for 150,000 people.”
Barack Obama on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 in >>Details
"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."
Barack Obama on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 in the campaign's website. >>Details
"Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 in a TV ad, in an endorsement by Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard >>Details
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, “Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state.”
Barack Obama on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in New Hampshire >>Details
"He's leading by example, refusing contributions from PACs and Washington lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details
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