"When I am president, there will be no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war."
- December, 2007
“Washington is broken. My whole campaign has been premised from the start on the idea that we have to fundamentally change how Washington works.”
- September, 2008
“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
- February 2009
“Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.”
- January, 2009.
“It’s here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future.”
- May 2010, (August 2011 Solyndra went belly up after receiving $535 million in federally backed loan guarantees)
“What we have done is kicked this can down the road. We are now at the end of the road and are not in a position to kick it any further. We have to signal seriousness in this by making sure some of the hard decisions are made under my watch, not someone else’s.”
- January 2009, talking about the growing expense of entitlement programs
“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
- May 2008
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed"
- May, 2007 on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
“If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will end this war. You can take that to the bank.”
- October, 2007
“We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks, with interest”
- October, 2012
"If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold."
- June 2009, and many other times
'First of all, I didn’t set a red line; the world set a red line."
- September, 2013
"We have communicated in no uncertain terms with every player in the region that that’s a red line for us"
- August 2012
“America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.”
- 2006
I could go on and on, but I'll end with the biggest lie of them all:
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
- January 2009 & 2013
So really, in the immortal words or Hillary Clinton: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? (her emphasis)
