“This feels good. This feels just like I imagined when
I was talking to my kindergarten teacher.”

– Barack Obama to supporters in an old airplane hangar in Portsmouth,
N.H., after winning the Iowa caucus referring to an exchange with the
Clinton campaign about his longtime ambitions, January 4, 2008

“I did. It’s not something I’m proud of.
It was a mistake as a young man.”

– Barack Obama’s response to a question from the
audience in Iowa about whether or not he had
inhaled marijuana as a youth, November 24, 2007

“On the single most important foreign policy
issue of our time, I got it right.”

– Barack Obama in South Carolina on his opposition to
the Iraq war before combat began, September 30, 2007

“We’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.”

– Barack Obama about U.S. problems in Afghanistan, August, 2007