Barack Obama: "Dalam kampanye di tahun 2007, 2008, orang akan berkata,...

"Dalam kampanye di tahun 2007, 2008, orang akan berkata, "Oh, dia naif. Dia berpikir bahwa tidak ada negara merah dan negara biru. Dan tunggu sampai dia tiba di sini." Dan saya akan akui itu, saya tidak sepenuhnya menghargai cara-cara di mana senator atau anggota Kongres sekarang didorong ke ekstrem oleh basis pemilih mereka. Saya tidak berharap, terutama di tengah-tengah krisis, betapa parahnya keberpihakan itu."

--- Barack Obama

Versi Bahasa Inggris

In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.