Barack Obama Quotes - Page 68

• Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Mean, Numbers

  President Obama Pennsylvania Health Care Remarks, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2010.

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• The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.

  Barack Obama

  Lying, Pride, America

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

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• What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

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  Action, Daily Life, Feels

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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• The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly.

  Barack Obama

  War, Sacrifice, Defense

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Hatred, Pathways

  Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq, delivered 27 February 2009, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

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• I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

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  Country, Appreciation, Wall

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

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• Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure.

  Barack Obama

  America, Safety, World

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.304, Canongate Books

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• I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.

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  School, Thinking, Skills

  "After the Great Recession". www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

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• I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

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  Sports, Dream, Heart

  "NPR Skips Over Conservative/GOP Critique of Obama Olympics Bid". www.newsbusters.org. October 3, 2009.

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• We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

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  America, Race, Luck

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• Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security.

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  Israel, Security

  "Obama says Clinton has foreign policy like Bush's" by Steve Holland, www.reuters.com. July 26, 2007.

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• I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing.

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  People, Church, Want

  "Following Months Of Criticism, Obama Quits His Church" by Michael Powell, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2008.

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• I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.

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  Men, Perfect, Wife

  Speech in Mitchell, South Dakota, June 1, 2008.

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• I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.

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  Differences, Accomplishment, Honor

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Jerusalem

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

  Barack Obama

  Done, Things Done, Just Listen

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 3, 2009.

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• The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

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  Needs, Way, Praying

  Remarks by the President at National Prayer Breakfast, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 03, 2011.

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• There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.

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  Iraq, Als, Al Qaeda

  "Tucker". "The Ed Show", www.nbcnews.com. February 28, 2008.

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• That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.

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  Silly, Wife, Needs

  "Barack the Blessed" by Jim Geraghty, National Review, July 27, 2004.

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• After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Weekend, Daddy

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. October 9, 2009.

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• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

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  Running, Mother, Children

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

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  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  "Obama to Immigration Activists: 'No Force On Earth Can Stop Us'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 2, 2014.

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• These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

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  Party, Mean, Orange

  "Obama jokes about bad 2013 at press corps dinner". "AM with Sabra Lane", www.abc.net.au. May 5, 2014.

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• Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

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  Family, Running, Daughter

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• But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today?

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Country, Pain

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

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