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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 105

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The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

Two, United States, Century

Source: www.straitstimes.com

I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?

Exercise, Vanity, Names

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

Thinking, Sides, Temperament

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

Steps, Quiet, Sometimes

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of progress are real.

Pain, Real, Thinking

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for."

Hype, People, Done

Source: www.vanityfair.com

The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.

Pyramids, Hype, Way

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

Running, Expression, Resentment

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.

Significant, Firm, Believer

Source: www.vanityfair.com

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

Play, Political, Gerrymandering

Source: www.vanityfair.com

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

Mean, Media, Way

Source: www.vanityfair.com

Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona.

People, Different, Persona

Source: www.vanityfair.com

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

Thinking, People, Bigs

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated.

Talking, People, Tvs

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

Thinking, Culture, News

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.

Mistake, Believe, Littles

Source: www.vanityfair.com

When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.

Party, Home, People

Source: www.vanityfair.com

There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

Decision, Looks, Made

Source: www.vanityfair.com

When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of.

Jobs, Taken, Debt

Source: time.com

I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well, as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican party's wrong, but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.

Country, Moving, Party

Source: time.com

I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

Country, Thinking, Drawing

Source: time.com

I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.

Stress, Thinking, People

"The Huddle Over Cabinet Picks; Obama Warns Against Crude Nationalism; Rogers Leaves Transition Team; Ryan on Same Page with Trump; House Dems Delay Vote; Mexico Readies for Deportations". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 15, 2016.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

Ethnicity, Race, Lines

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

There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.

Order, America, News

Source: time.com

I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection.

Party, Reflection, Thinking

"Report: Obama Holds First News Conference Since Election". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2016.