Barack Obama Quotes - Page 74

• 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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• 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?

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  Leadership, Country, Pain

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

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• I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate.

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  Taken, Commitment, Cnn

  "Obama cracks on Rubio's limited experience". articles.sun-sentinel.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.

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  Leadership, Fashion, Party

  Remarks by the President in Q&A with David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 10, 2014.

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• We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask you to fight, to sacrifice, to risk your lives for your country. The last thing you should have to do is fight for a job when you come home.

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  Country, Jobs, Home

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• American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

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  Leadership, Matter, Burden

  "Obama defends Libya policy". "The World Today with Eleanor Hall", www.abc.net.au. March 29, 2011.

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• It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

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  Education, Country, Party

  Remarks by the President on College Affordability, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 26, 2011.

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• But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

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  Education, Teacher, Kids

  "Dissecting The Lies In Obama's $447 Billion "Shock And Awe" Reelection Ploy". Interview with Mike "Mish" Shedlock, www.businessinsider.com.au. September 9, 2011.

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• We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.

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  Kings, War, Winning

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 16, 2011.

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• I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.

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  Jobs, Giving, Style

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• When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

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  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Marriage Equality

  Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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• All people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love.

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  People, Should, Treated

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2015

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• We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

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  Ambition, Alaska, Individual

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry.

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  Recovery, Cutting, Government

  "Obama Announces GM, Chrysler Restructuring Plan (FULL TEXT)", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.

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  Change, Thinking, Technology

  "Policing task force calls for 'de-escalation' training" by David Nather, www.politico.com. March 2, 2015.

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• You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.

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  Change, Long, Climate

  "In Coast Guard commencement address, Obama buoys climate change" by Allie Malloy and Kristen Holmes, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.

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  Change, Peace, Jobs

  "Obama: Think more about the economy, war and peace and less about weed" by Roberta Rampton and Julia Edwards, www.businessinsider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

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  Criminals, Politics, Saws

  "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan and John Berman, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

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  Men, America, Important

  Remarks by the President on the FY2016 Budget, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 2, 2015.

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• What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.

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  Children, Taken, Mirrors

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• Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.

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  Sports, Country, Years

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