I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Barack ObamaHere in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.
Barack ObamaI wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
Barack Obama