"(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic." -- Dan Rather
"A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee." -- Bill Clinton to Ted Kennedy
"(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
-- Harry Reid's comments reported by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation." -- Former Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd (D.,Conn.)
"Let me see one of you adopt one of those ugly black babies." -- Abortionist Ashutosh Ron Virmani
"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years.? -- Louis Farrakhan
"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent." -- Joe Biden
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." -- Joe Biden
"We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go." -- Marion Barry
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn?t. But she is a typical white person" -- Barack Obama