Barack Obama Quotes - Page 22

• Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process.

  Barack Obama

  Confused, Humility, Assuming

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

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  Cutting, Class, Lasts

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

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• I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

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  Directors, Clinton, Pending

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

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  America, Trying, President

  Townhall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 31, 2008.

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• Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

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  President, World, Individual

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• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Integrity

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• [American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

  Barack Obama

  Country, Ideas, Generations

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.

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  Believe, Years, America

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

  Barack Obama

  Dog, Mutts, Shelter

  "No Rest For Obama". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 8, 2008.

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• We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

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  Inspirational, Challenges, Age

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• As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Majority

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

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  Church, Christ, Jeremiah

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• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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  Inspirational, Pride, Thinking

  "Policy or Politics? Obama Learns the Hard Way He Has to Do Both" by Dan Farber, www.cbsnews.com. Policy or Politics? Obama Learns the Hard Way He Has to Do Both.

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• I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

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  Believe, Safe Haven, Order

  Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

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  Running, Children, Honor

  "Obama Speaks at Selma's "Bloody Sunday" 50th Anniversary" by Natalie Stone, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2015.

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• I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

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  Thinking, Tolerance, Doubt

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

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  Reflection, Race, Missing

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.124, Broadway Books

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• This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

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  Ideas, America, People

  "Obama: Trump's speech 'doesn't really jibe' with facts". www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2016.

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• It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can.

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  Nice, Home, Office

  "Strategy Memo: Super Bowl Monday" by Mike Memoli and Kyle Trygstad, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

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  Leadership, Science, Technology

  "CNN Newsroom" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2015.

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• If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

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  Mistake, Recovery, Cutting

  "President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2016.

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• You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

  Barack Obama

  School, Boards, Levels

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyone else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses, and that's sort of par for the course.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Crazy, Gun

  "Exasperated Obama: Inability to get tougher gun laws shameful" by Kevin Liptak, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2014.

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• If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

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  Trying, Obligation, Can Do

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