“No one is pro-abortion.”

– Barack Obama in a speech at
Benedictine University, October 5, 2004

“I have some news for John McCain, and that is that
there was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until
George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.”

– Barack Obama to a crowd at Ohio State University in response
to John McCain’s comments about his answer to whether a
president should militarily enter Iraq to stop an insurrection
after removing US troop numbers, February 27, 2008

“Everybody knows that whether it’s me or Senator Clinton, or Bill Clinton,
that when you travel to other countries they ask you to try on traditional
garb that you have been given as a gift. The notion that the Clinton
campaign would be trying to circulate this as a negative on the same
day that Senator Clinton was giving a speech about how we repair
our relationships around the world is sad.”

– Barack Obama in a radio interview with WAOI in San Antonio 
regarding the photo on the Drudge Report showing him
dressed in traditional Somali attire, February 25, 2008

“I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the
redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that
faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.

But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus
set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always
prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. ”

– Barack Obama in an interview with
Christianity Today, January 22, 2008

“We are the ones that we’ve been waiting for; we are the dream
that we seek. It’s a chorus that cannot be ignored,
a chorus that cannot be deterred.”

– Barack Obama in a speech in Chicago on
Super Tuesday, February 6, 2008

“The name of my cousin Dick Cheney will not be on the ballot.
That was really embarrassing when the news came out!
When they do these surveys, you hope you’re related to
someone cool… Dick Cheney… that was really a let down.”

– Barack Obama at a stop in Boise, Idaho, joking about a recent
story showing that he is a distant relative of current
Vice President Dick Cheney, February 2, 2008