“Lord - Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help
me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do
what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.”

– Barack Obama’s written prayer stuffed into a crevass
of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, July 24, 2008

“I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose
a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama
would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.”

– John McCain discussing his support of the Iraq troop surge at
a town hall meeting in Rochester, New Hampshire, July 22, 2008

“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuming that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

– From The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume VII, “Reply to New York Workingmen’s Democratic Republican Association”, March 21, 1864

“You came out here because you wanted to
see me get beat by your fellow soldiers.”

– Barack Obama joking to those watching him play basketball
with the troops at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, July 19, 2008

“Our founders understood full well that a system of checks and balances is needed in our constitution because every human being lives with an internal system of checks and balances that cannot be relied upon to produce virtue if they are allowed to attain an unhealthy degree of power over their fellow citizens.”

– Al Gore in a speech at New York University discussing the abuses at
Abu Ghraib, May 26, 2004

“I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday,
ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.”

– George W. Bush in Arlington, Virginia announcing the
reopening of Reagan National Airport, October, 2001