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It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

Barack Obama
Talking, Common Humanity, Names
President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.

Barack Obama
Gun, Law, America

Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

Barack Obama
Sex, Pride, Gay
"The Obama Brief" By Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

Barack Obama
Country, Wish, Lawyer
Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.10, Canongate Books

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

Barack Obama
War, People, Islam
Barack Obama's Remarks in Closing of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 18, 2015.

And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.

Barack Obama
Country, Jobs, Children

If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

Barack Obama
Religious, Sincere, Condom
Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

Barack Obama
Money, Writing, Challenges
Tenth President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, First Broadcast 10 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control.

Barack Obama
Thinking, Order, Numbers
Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.266, Canongate Books

It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

Barack Obama
Zero, Important, Privacy
Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Barack Obama
Inspirational, Cutting, Class
"Obama’s Speech on Reducing the Budget", www.nytimes.com. April 13, 2011.

So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

Barack Obama
Christian, Jesus, Brother
"Obama: 'A Christian by Choice'" by Kristin Brown, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2010.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

Barack Obama
Sex, Couple, Gay

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Barack Obama
Family, Years, Payroll Tax
Speech in Dover, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 2008.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Barack Obama
Education, Money, Luxury
"Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 21, 2012.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Barack Obama
Truth, African American, President
Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

Barack Obama
Daughter, Mother, Brother
Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. It takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. Hopefully, it`s a reminder that elections matter. I think it`s important for us to let him make his decisions, and I think the American people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see.

Barack Obama
Couple, Team, Thinking
Source: www.msnbc.com

Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.

Barack Obama
Easy
Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games and pick up a book; to teach them the difference between right and wrong; to show them through our own example the value in treating one another as we wish to be treated. And most of all, to play an active and engaged role in their lives.

Barack Obama
Father, Book, Kids

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

Barack Obama
President, Reform, Needs
First presidential debate, edition.cnn.com. October 14, 2008.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama
Inspirational, Family, Retirement
Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Barack Obama
Children, Blood, Sweat
"2008: The year in review" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

Barack Obama
Children, Ambition, Knowing
Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

Barack Obama
Struggle, Pride, Men