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
I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. – Barack Obama
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If youve got a business – you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen. – Barack Obama
If the critics are right that Ive made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. – Barack Obama