"More people without health care since George Bush took office; more children in poverty since George Bush took office."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a campaign speech in Williamsport, Pa. >>Details
A gas tax holiday "would at best provide 30 cents a day for three months for a grand total of $28."
Barack Obama on Monday, May 5th, 2008 in a television interview >>Details
"If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place."
Barack Obama on Sunday, May 4th, 2008 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. >>Details
"Bill Clinton invited him (the Rev. Wright) to the White House when he was having his personal crises."
Barack Obama on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Philadelphia >>Details
Hillary Clinton is "willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance."
Barack Obama on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"Hillary Clinton supported NAFTA and permanent China trade. Pennsylvania lost thousands of jobs."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in a mailer to Pennsylvania voters >>Details
Barack Obama is "the only candidate who doesn’t take a dime from oil company PACs or lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in in a television ad >>Details
"Hillary Clinton has taken over $800,000 from lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 in an online ad. >>Details
"He’s promising four more years of an administration that will push for the privatization of Social Security..."
Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in Associated Press Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. >>Details
The United States is "seeing greater income inequality now than any time since the 1920s."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in Democratic debate in Philadephia >>Details
Barack Obama's network of small donors constitutes a "parallel public financing system."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
"I'm the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born."
Barack Obama on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in an interview with theadvocate.com >>Details
"He took on special interests and won, passing the toughest ethics law yet."
Barack Obama on Monday, April 14th, 2008 in a television ad. >>Details
"Iraq is costing each household about $100 a month."
Barack Obama on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in a speech in Charleston, W.Va. >>Details
Obama says Clinton in 2002 suggested there was a connection between al-Qaida and the Iraqi government.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball. >>Details
"We've won twice as many states. We've won a greater share of the popular vote."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in an interview on the Today Show. >>Details
"I've spent 20 years devoted to working on behalf of families who are having a tough time and are seeking out the American dream."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details
"We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland, Ohio. >>Details
Says Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for the Iraq war.
Barack Obama on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 in a speech in Westerville, Ohio >>Details
"When we've got CEOs making more in 10 minutes than ordinary workers are making in a year ... then something is wrong."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Houston, Texas >>Details
A mailer from the Obama campaign "accurately indicates" that Hillary Clinton would "force uninsured people to buy insurance, even if they can't afford it."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio >>Details
"Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a 'boon' to our economy."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 in a flier sent to voters in Ohio >>Details
Clinton said "great things about NAFTA until she started running for president."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 in Lorain, Ohio >>Details
He's been endorsed by "every major newspaper here in the state of Texas."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
"As has been noted by many observers, including Bill Clinton's former secretary of labor, my plan does more than anybody to reduce costs."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in Austin, Texas >>Details
"We send a billion dollars to foreign countries every day because of our addiction to foreign oil."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
"We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate."
Barack Obama on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 in a debate in Austin, Texas. >>Details
Americans "have never paid more for gas at the pump."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandra, Va. >>Details
"The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
Hillary Clinton "starts off with 47 percent of the country against her."
Barack Obama on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Alexandria, Va. >>Details
"Sen. Obama has always had a 100 percent prochoice rating."
Barack Obama on Monday, February 4th, 2008 in an e-mail message sent to voters before Super Tuesday. >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agreed with (John McCain) on voting for the war in Iraq."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton agrees with John McCain "by voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton "actually differed with (John McCain) by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
Hillary Clinton "agrees with (John McCain) in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"But it was Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, who quote 'paid tribute' to Ronald Reagan's economic and foreign policy."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in a radio ad in South Carolina >>Details
"While I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart."
Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
"I know that Hillary on occasion has said — just last year said this (NAFTA) was a boon to the economy."
Barack Obama on Monday, January 21st, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
"I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in debate in Las Vegas >>Details
Says he passed a bill to stop a military requirement that wounded soldiers pay for meals and phone calls.
Barack Obama on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 in a debate in Las Vegas >>Details
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil's profits have never been higher."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a speech in Iowa >>Details
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars."
Barack Obama on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"I do provide universal health care."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nev. >>Details
"John wasn’t this raging populist four years ago" when he ran for president.
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 8th, 2007 in Chariton, Iowa >>Details
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
Barack Obama on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 in Las Vegas >>Details
"I'm the only person on this stage who has worked actively just last year passing, along with Russ Feingold, some of the toughest ethics reform since Watergate."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in a Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Pa. >>Details
Obama spokesman Bill Burton says Clinton gave Bush "a blank check on a critical foreign policy issue."
Barack Obama on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in >>Details
"I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006."
Barack Obama on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 in Clinton, Iowa >>Details
"And it's going to be difficult for us to do this as long as we're spending $275 million a day on a war that should have never been authorized..."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 in Washington, DC. >>Details
Obama “won health care for 150,000 people.”
Barack Obama on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 in >>Details
"During his tenure in Washington and in the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama has accumulated a record of bipartisan success."
Barack Obama on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 in the campaign's website. >>Details
"Sen. Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 in a TV ad, in an endorsement by Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard >>Details
If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, “Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state.”
Barack Obama on Monday, August 20th, 2007 in New Hampshire >>Details
"He's leading by example, refusing contributions from PACs and Washington lobbyists."
Barack Obama on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 in a TV ad. >>Details
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