Barack Obama Quotes About Decisions

• Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Decision

  "Supreme Court Upholds Health Reform Law". www.webmd.com. June 28, 2012.

• When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that's when democracy breaks down. That's when power is abused. That's when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That's when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power - because none of us are there to speak up and stop them.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Voice, Issues

  "Obama Michigan Graduation Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

• No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Gun, America

• Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

  Barack Obama

  Decision, Safe, Firsts

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.

  Barack Obama

  New York, Emotional, Thinking

  "Obama Challenges GOP Lawmakers In Budget Debate". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. June 29, 2011.

• Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Decision, Should

  Barack Obama's speech on Preventive Care, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 10, 2012.

• If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Decision, Made

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

• There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

  Barack Obama

  Block, America, Government

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

• The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.

  Barack Obama

  Texas, America, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Europe, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me.

  Barack Obama

  War, Effort, Decision

  Source: www.politico.com

• Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Decision, Troops

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

  Barack Obama

  Decision, Levels, Ability

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is enduring, and the United Kingdom's membership in Nato remains a vital cornerstone of US foreign, security and economic policy.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Special

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. If everybody took the approach that I make my own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Security Systems, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, People, Decision

  Source: genius.com

• I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

  Barack Obama

  Decision, Want, Eating

• My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Opportunity, Choices

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Opportunity, Sea

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

• Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

  Barack Obama

  Community, Decision, Able

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• [When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.

  Barack Obama

  Decision, Troops, West Point

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Decision, Majority

  Barack Obama's Remarks to the White House Press Corps, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 20, 2012.

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