Barack Obama Quotes About Money

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Encouragement, Money

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

• It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

  Barack Obama

  Money, Democracy, Size

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Ambition, Focus

  Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Educational, Responsibility

• In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Money, Differences

• I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Jobs, White

  "Why Environmentalists Should Occupy Wall Street" by Phil Aroneanu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

• One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Full Transcript: : President Obama’s Sept. 30 remarks on the looming government shutdown". www.washingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

• Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Money, Luxury

  "Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.

• I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Powerful, Stupid

  "Questions Over Obama's Off-the-Cuff Remark". "America's Election HQ" with Martha Maccallum, www.foxnews.com. October 14, 2008.

• We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Country, Money

• When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Office, Dollars

  "Transcript of second McCain, Obama debate". edition.cnn.com. October 7, 2008.

• Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

  Barack Obama

  Money, People, Trends

• To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Cutting, President

• We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

  Barack Obama

  Money, Minimum Wage, Poverty

• Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

  Barack Obama

  Country, Money, Children

  "'President' Obama gets an early start" by Carol E. Lee, www.politico.com. January 8, 2009.

• What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that is unsustainable. At a certain point, other countries stop buying our debt, at a certain point, we'd end up having to raise interest rates, and it would end up creating more economic chaos and potentially inflation.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Money, Years

• Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Money, War

  "The First Presidential Debate". "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2008.

• I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Thinking, Needs

  "Obama plans ambitious first week, aides say" by Ed Henry, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2009.

• We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

  Barack Obama

  New Year, Money, Years

  Tenth President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, First Broadcast 10 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

• You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

  Barack Obama

  Money, People, President

  "Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp - on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics". Book by Kenneth Vogel, www.politico.com. June 3, 2014.

• Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Home, Car

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

• We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Years, Giving

  Speech at the First presidential debate, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2008.

• Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Writing, Challenges

  Tenth President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, First Broadcast 10 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

• Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Dollars, Economy

  Interview with John Harwood, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2012.

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