Barack Obama Quotes - Page 31

• And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Doctors, Keeping Promises

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• Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Voice, Roots

  "Obama doubles down in advocating active government, as GOP warns of excess" by Doug McKelway, www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2013.

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• And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time -- acknowledging that it has chemical weapons, agreeing to join the convention that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians -- their primary sponsors -- saying that they will push Syria to get all of their chemical weapons out. The distance that we've traveled over these couple of weeks is remarkable.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Distance, Justice

  "Full Transcript: President Obama Speaks Exclusively to George Stephanopoulos on 'This Week'". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2013.

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• We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, People, Safe

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2012

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• Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Odds, Our Generation

  Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President, Delivered 10 February 2007, Springfield, Illinois

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• The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

  Barack Obama

  Rude, Way, Fame

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Jobs, Government

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• I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information.

  Barack Obama

  Giving, People, Information

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, America, Challenges

  Source: genius.com

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• Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

  Barack Obama

  Care, Tough, Discrimination

  Remarks by the President at Morehouse College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 19, 2013.

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• The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology.

  Barack Obama

  Hateful, Speak, Terrorist

  "How radical Islam has recently impacted America". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 14, 2016.

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• If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, Bans, Should

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Views, Libertarian

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, but I`m still going to vote for him? Come on, man.

  Barack Obama

  Artist, Men, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Order, People

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.178, Crown

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• Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Years, Leader

  Source: time.com

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• I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

  Barack Obama

  Two, Different, Governing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mean, Race

  Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Abuse, Waste

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.

  Barack Obama

  Agreement, Guy, Leaving

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law enforcement across borders gives us the ability to protect ourselves while still being true to the basic precepts of our liberal democracies. I hope that that continues, and it is something that I think we should be worried about.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Europe, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Connections, May

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Father, Reflection

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• I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: time.com

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