Change Quote by John Dickerson

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white…

— Maya Angelou

“Today my elation over Obama's election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness. As an African American woman, with three young children who…

— Michelle Alexander

Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels…

— Ron Fournier

Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on…

— Peter Morgan

Nobody was going to beat Barack Obama in 2008. That's a fact. It was his moment. It wasn't that John McCain ran a bad…

— Martha MacCallum

When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was…

— Bill Moyers

“Obama won, but he had few illusions that he had vanquished big money. “I’m an incumbent president who already had this huge network of…

— Jane Mayer

“As the polls began closing in the East, with states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Virginia going for Barack Obama, it was quickly becoming…

— Al Franken

“In the shell-shocked aftermath of the election, President Obama, looking shaken, appeared in the White House Rose Garden to deliver public remarks intended to…

— Joshua Green

A lot of conversations happened during Obama's election that opened my eyes and made me really excited. He provided hope at a time when…

— Vick Hope

Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

— John Podhoretz