Portal:2008 Presidential Election/CandidateQuotes

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edit Barack Obama (D)

Speeches - http://www.barackobama.com/speeches

  • "I still believe that America is the last, best hope of Earth. We just have to show the world why this is so. This President may occupy the White House, but for the last six years the position of leader of the free world has remained open. And it's time to fill that role once more."
    • April 23, 2007 - Chicago, IL to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs


  • "The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we've changed this country before. In the face of tyranny, a band of patriots brought an Empire to its knees. In the face of secession, we unified a nation and set the captives free. In the face of Depression, we put people back to work and lifted millions out of poverty. We welcomed immigrants to our shores, we opened railroads to the west, we landed a man on the moon, and we heard a King's call to let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it."


edit Ron Paul (R)

  • "Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms."
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  • "Republicans were elected to end the Korean War. The Republicans were elected to end the Vietnam War. There's a strong tradition of being anti-war in the Republican Party. It is the constitutional position. It is the advice of the founders to follow a non-interventionist foreign policy. Stay out of entangling alliances. Be friends with countries. Negotiate and talk with them and trade with them. Just think of the tremendous improvement [in] relationships with Vietnam. We lost 60,000 men, we came home in defeat, now we go over there and we invest in Vietnam. So there's a lot of merit to the advice of the founders, and following the Constitution. My argument is that we shouldn't go to war so carelessly. When we do, the wars don't end."
    • Ron Paul – FOX News South Carolina GOP debate, May 15, 2007

edit Rudy Giuliani (R)

http://www.allgreatquotes.com/rudy_giuliani_quotes.shtml

edit Hillary Clinton (D)

  • "There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard."
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edit John McCain (R)

  • "You can't sell me on hopelessness. You can't convince me our problems are insurmountable. Our challenges are an opportunity to write another chapter of American greatness. We must seize it, and those of us privileged to lead America must remember the principles that made us great, have the faith to stand by them, the integrity to honor our public trust, and the courage to keep our promise to put the nation's interests before our own. Don't tell me what we can't do. Don't tell me we can't make our country stronger, and the world safer. We can. We must. And when I'm President we will."