Barack Quotes - Page 21

• It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

  Rich Lowry

  Thinking, Keys, Russia

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness to Putin is a very scary thing for the country and the fact that the news was dominated for 33 days I think it was by WikiLeaks stories, that had an impact on states that were decided by a knife-edge.

  E. J. Dionne

  Country, Thinking, Knives

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty, our independence, while if you want to talk about world red lines, the United States used depleted uranium in Iraq, Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody said anything. What about the red lines ? We don't see red lines. It's political red lines.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Israel, Iraq

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.

  Bashar al-Assad

  President, Different, Doctrine

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• If we want to expect something from this [Barack Obama] administration, it is not to be weak, to be strong to say that "we don't have evidence," that "we have to obey the international law", that "we have to go back to the Security Council and the United Nations".

  Bashar al-Assad

  Strong, Law, Want

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Evidence, Transparent

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, People, Track

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I think the president [Barack Obama] is right to call for a full investigation. Every federal agency involved should be - should put everything on the table, and the Democratic Party will put everything on the table.

  Donna Brazile

  Party, Thinking, Agency

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.

  Donna Brazile

  President, Littles, Saws

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Thinking, White, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Strong, Unique, Succeed

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Reading, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mother, Two, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Crow, Hawaii, Segregation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  White, People, Optimism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Winning, Thinking, Symbolism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Community, African American, Patronizing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Thinking, Government, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Bridges, People, Optimism

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Just recently, the administration of Barack Obama, which has broken all sorts of records in regards to deportation, picked up a Guatemalan man living here [in U.S]. I think he had been living here for twenty-five years, had a family, a business, and so on. He had fled from the Mayan region and they picked him up and deported him. To me, that's really sick.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mexican Border, United States, Borders

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Whether you agree or disagree with Barack Obama, he is getting some things done, though not in the way most Americans would prefer or what is actually best for them.

  Rick Perry

  Done, Way, Agree

  Source: stream.org

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• I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.

  Rick Perry

  Thinking, Order, President

  Source: stream.org

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• We were also going to develop relations with the current administration [of Barack Obama], but somehow they did not work out well in key areas and, I believe, not through our fault. I will not list all the problems that emerged in the past few years.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Past, Keys

  Source: www.rt.com

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• There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Ideas, Leader

  Source: www.rt.com

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