"I do not want two classes of..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”

“But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we’re going to have to do something with those assets.”

“You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.”

“In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country”

“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.”

“I've learned that regardless of color or age, we all need about the same amount of love.”

“The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?”

“And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.”

“Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.”