Quotations From Barak Hussein Obama

Barack Obama (the candidate, Experience: 1-term as U.S. Junior Senator)

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join me
as we try to change it."

"I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to
suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

"I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my
mother’s race."

"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."

"I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I
had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no
sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant
surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time."

"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had
helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..."

"...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all
about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a
baby."

"I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community." --
UPDATE: Barack Obama decides to "disown" him on Tuesday, April 29th after he realized
his campaign was in severe turmoil due to his association with Mr. Wright.

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She
doesn't. But she is a typical white person..."

"That’s just how white folks will do you."

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the
Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they
fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive
administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they
have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade
sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"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 selecting my
judges."

Call to Islamic prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Michelle Obama (wife)

"For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is
making a comeback." --UPDATE: Uttered in a campaign speech only AFTER her husband,
Barack, began winning.

"That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands
that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are
broken in this nation."

"Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this
messy thing called politics."

"... as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know."

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever
before."

"Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of

the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would
utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and
foremost."

"The truth is most Americans don't want much. Folks don't want the whole pie. Most
Americans feel blessed to thrive a little bit, but that's out of reach for them. The truth is, in
order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, someone is
going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more." --
NOTICE: See the video entitled " Michelle's America: Socialism in the Heartland" on our
homepage to view the quote and associated commentary.

Jeremiah Wright (Barack

Obama's pastor and spiritual mentor for 20 years)

"Racism is how this country (America) was founded and how this country is still run!"

"America is still the number one killer in the world."

"We (Americans) are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and
the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation
experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify
the means!"

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and
now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to
our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." -- (commenting on the
9/11 attacks)

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and
then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the
Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than
human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

"In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and
the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the
woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring
black concerns."

"Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man
will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no
black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body."

"We (the United States of America) started the AIDS virus."

S. Ann Soetoro (Obama's mother, an
Atheist who married a Kenyan Muslim)

"They (Americans) are not my people!"

William Ayers ("acquaintance" of

Barack Obama's in Chicago)

''I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.'' -- spoke during an interview on
September 11th

"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill
your parents, that's where it's really at."

"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon."