Barack Obama Quotes - Page 99

• With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Would Be, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Threat, Terrorist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

  Barack Obama

  Population, Able, Guantanamo

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Data, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries is gonna require us to manage technology and global integration and all these demographic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, that gives them more confidence in their future.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, Technology

  Source: time.com

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• I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

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• Democracy is hard work.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Democracy, Hard

  Source: time.com

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• I can say to the German people that the United States has been good for Germany. Has looked out for Germany. Has provided security for Germany. Has helped rebuilt Germany. And unify Germany.

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  People, United States, Germany

  Source: time.com

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• In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

  Barack Obama

  Age, Looks, Television

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Upset, Campaigns

  Source: time.com

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• The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

  Barack Obama

  Able, Problem, Investment

  "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• Elections matter and voting counts.

  Barack Obama

  Voting, Matter, Election

  Source: time.com

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• Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.

  Barack Obama

  People, Political, Upset

  Source: time.com

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• The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Years

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference", ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Order, Community

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Past, Race

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• [The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Ideas, Should

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• [The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Believe, Ideas

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people aren't aware of, that affect who's hired, and who gets loans, and how kids are treated in school. But it's a powerful thing if you have on your side an idea that the overwhelming majority of people believe in because that's how you can build a consensus that's lasting.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Believe, School

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

  Barack Obama

  Mind, Argument, Folks

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Support, Want

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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