Barack Obama Quotes

"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
- Barack Obama

"This is not a time for ideology - it's a time for common sense and a politics of pragmatism. The test of an idea must not be whether it is liberal or conservative - whether it's Republican or Democrat - the test should be whether it works for the people of Chillicothe, the people of Ohio, and the American people"
- Barack Obama - On tour for the presidential campaign on the 10th of October 2008