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The American People. You hear an awful lot about them. Politicans, especially, are experts: they know what we want, need, feel, think, deserve, demand. So we thought we’d start keeping track of who’s claiming to speak for us, the American People. Who speaks for you?
Quotes are automatically selected from all election-related wire service stories available through Yahoo.
August 28, 2008
- "This speech and the election is not about Barack Obama, it's about the American people and the direction we need to go in, to get us out of the ditch we are in," said top Obama strategist David Axelrod.
- “His goal is to talk to the American people about the challenges we face and what we need to do to solve them, and the stakes of continuing to do what we are doing,” Axelrod said. “I will leave it to others to decide the inspiration factor.”
- “His goal is to talk to the American people about the challenges we face and what we need to do to solve them, and the stakes of continuing to do what we are doing,” Axelrod said. “I will leave it to others to decide the inspiration factor.”
August 27, 2008
- Drawing on his 36 years in Senate and his vast foreign policy experience, he savaged the Republican Party accusing it of failing to protect the American people in what he called "extraordinary times."
- “These are extraordinary times. This is an extraordinary election,” Biden said. “The American people are ready. I'm ready. Barack is ready.
- “This is the time as Americans, together, we get back up,” he said. ” … These are extraordinary times. This is an extraordinary election. The American people are ready. Barack Obama is ready. This is his time. This is our time. This is America’s time.”
- More recently, Biden has said Obama has learned much the past year in crisscrossing the country and traveling abroad, talking with American people and foreign figures.
- Barack Obama will deliver that change. Barack Obama will reform our tax code. He’ll cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people who draw a paycheck. That’s the change we need.
- These are extraordinary times. This is an extraordinary election. The American people are ready. I’m ready. Barack Obama is ready. This is his time. This is our time. This is America’s time.
- "And so I am going to fight as hard as I can over the next 70 days to make clear to the American people that they deserve a president and a White House that is fighting for them, that's not fighting for the special interests, that's not fighting for the banks and the oil companies and the well-connected."
- "And so I am going to fight as hard as I can over the next 70 days to make clear to the American people that they deserve a president and a White House that is fighting for them, that's not fighting for the special interests, that's not fighting for the banks and the oil companies and the well-connected."
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