“I’m not just going to have a Bureau of Indian Affairs that is off in the sidelines somewhere, and basically is a flycatcher for the native peoples, I’m going to have an annual summit with native American leaders, tribal leaders. They’re going to meet directly with me. I will have somebody in my White House who is regularly working with tribal leadership all across the country to figure out how can we lift up the economic prospects and the social and health conditions of these people in a way that is respectful of tribal sovereignty and the traditions and the cultures of the people involved.”

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02.28 “We can disagree without being disagreeable… and that’s the tone I want to set in our government.”
02.28 “But I have some news for John McCain… and that is that there was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.”
02.19 Barack Obama’s sister Maya explains the Hawaii Caucus
02.18 “You do have to be pretty audacious to say, ‘I can change this… this doesn’t have to be this way. We can do this, we can try this’.”
02.18 “I also think that, more than just being a real leader, I think Barack shows us we can be ourselves and the fact that he was a community organizer and went door to door and organized communities, and he inspires us to do the same… “
02.18 “We’re not going to take PAC money. We’re not taking special interest money. We’re not taking lobbyist money. We are going to be funded by the grassroots… we’re going to set up a grassroots organization, and all across the country people have responded like never before.”
02.18 “If we are seeing progress, then I actually think we don’t need more troops, because ultimately twenty thousand more troops is not going to control the mayhem that’s taking place in Baghdad right now. What is going to control it is the Maliki government, the Sunnis and the Kurds sitting down and making a decision about how they are going to move forward as a country. In the absence of that changed political dynamic, an additional twenty thousand troops will result in some additional casualties… there may be some short term progress in terms of insurgent groups or militias falling back into the general population until we pull back, but what we’re not going to see is the kind of cohesion in the central government that’s going to be required. The only way to do that, I think, is to start saying to them, ‘We’re going to provide you training, we’ll provide you logistical support, we will provide you counter-insurgency, our troops will still be in the Middle East to ensure that there are no regional problems, but what we’re not going to do is continue to oversee what has effectively become a sectarian war’.”
02.18 “We should be able to develop technology that sequesters the carbon released from coal-fired plants… captures the carbon so that it’s not going in the atmosphere, and then we can run coal cleaner. It’s going to take a major investment, though, because we don’t have the technology to do it right now in an efficient way.”
02.18 Entrevista a Barack Obama en 60 Minutes
02.18 “One of the interesting things about this experience argument is that it’s often posed as just a function of longevity… ‘You know, I’ve been here longer.’ Well, there are a lot of companies that have been around longer than Google, but Google’s performing.”

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