“Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.”
– President Obama announcing the killing
of bin Laden at the White House, May 1, 2011
“We do not have time for this kind of silliness.”
– Barack Obama in a press conference at the White House
about the release of his long-form birth certificate, April 27, 2011
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to
unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not
involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”
– President Obama in an interview with
the Boston Globe, December 20, 2007
“I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested
for AIDS. There’s no shame in being tested
for AIDS. It’s an important thing.”
– Joe Biden at a Democratic primary debate
at Howard University, June 28, 2007
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
– John F. Kennedy in an address at Rice University, September 12, 1962 (8:40 into video)