Barack Obama

"If you want to know my policies, look who I surround myself with."

"I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House. "

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. "

"I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. "

"In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. "

"One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. "

"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. "

"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. "

"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be select

"What Washington needs is adult supervision. "

"You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime. "