In the end, thats what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? – 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
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones weve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama
We need somebody whos got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what its like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what its like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and thats the criterion by which Ill be selecting my judges. – Barack Obama