Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israels. It will be a strong friend of Israels under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israels under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change. – Barack Obama
I dont think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. – Barack Obama
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. Thats what I strive to do, thats what I pray to do every day. – Barack Obama
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and its a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. – Marianne Williamson