2008 Presidential Election Quotes

#1. Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was ... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Jeff Greenfield

#2. What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#3. Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.

Conan O'Brien

#4. Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Plato

#5. In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.

Noam Chomsky

#6. 'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Zac Goldsmith

#7. Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.

Yoko Ono

#8. Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Timothy Noah

#9. There are two kinds of warriors:
those on the battlefield,
and those in the boardroom;
both are out to win.
But the age of King Alexander has gone,
and the age of Bill Gates has come.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. This day's nothingness
as if from spite
became a flame
and scorched the lips
of children and poets.

Adam Zagajewski

#11. If you think all these terrible things about Obama, he asked the woman, how can you possibly be undecided?

Because if McCain dies, Palin would be president, she said.

John Heilemann

#12. It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Robert Greenwald

#13. In 2008, Barack Obama was the electoral equivalent of the Hula Hoop; a political Pet Rock; a craze, a fad, an irrational gadget. The latest have-to-have, must-vote-for candidate.

Mondo Frazier

#14. Don't be too sure,' he continued. The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was a Swede, too.' 'Hanged himself! Why, in God's name?' I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. 'Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.

Joseph Conrad

#15. After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

Jesse Ventura

#16. Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#17. I knew I couldn't be imagining it, because it wasn't exactly a good feeling, and if I'd imagined touching Cam, if would have felt good.

Inara Scott

#18. Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

Ashley Scott

#19. Though we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world.

Michael Marshall Smith

#20. I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

Francis Ford Coppola

#21. Whether you're online or out in the real world, treat every person you meet as a possible future resource.

Erik Deckers