All statements by Barack Obama
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"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


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"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


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"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


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"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


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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


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"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


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"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


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"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


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"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


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"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


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"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


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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


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