“I am challenging Senator Obama to a bowl-off,
a bowling night right here in Pennsylvania, winner
take all. I’ll even spot him two frames.”
“My economic plan is better than my bowling.”
– Barack Obama to fellow bowlers in Pennsylvania. Obama finished
with a score of 37, with a perfect game being 300. March 29, 2008
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
“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. These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.”
“No one is pro-abortion.”
– Barack Obama in a speech at
Benedictine University, October 5, 2004
“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and
had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession
which I entered before my husband was in public life.”
– Hillary Clinton at a Chicago bakery during the 1992 election
answering reporter’s questions about the possible conflict between
her law practice and her husband being governor, March 16, 1992
