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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 115

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My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

Worry, Lasts, Building

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.

Smart, People, Mind

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people.

People, President, Ease

Source: www.vanityfair.com

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

Religious, Atheist, People

Source: www.patheos.com

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.

Religious, Atheist, Believe

Source: www.patheos.com

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

Thinking, Political, Helping

Source: www.patheos.com

The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

People, United States, Germany

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

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

Russia, Ukraine, Differences

Source: time.com

To the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all of our institutions are full of malevolent actors - if that's the storyline that's being put out there by whatever party is out of power, then when a foreign government introduces that same argument with facts that are made up, voters who have been listening to that stuff for years, who have been getting that stuff every day from talk radio or other venues, they're going to believe it.

Party, Believe, Government

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement.

Mistake, Needs, Administration

Source: time.com

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

Hopelessness, Enough, Violent

Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

Past, Able, Administration

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it's fair to say if I presented a cure for cancer, getting legislation passed to move that forward would be a nail-biter.

Cancer, Moving, Thinking

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences.

Military, Thinking, Action

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.

Technology, Media, People

Source: time.com

When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix.

Religious, Issues, People

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.

Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.

Smart, Cutting, America

Source: genius.com

The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis.

Thinking, People, Giving

Source: www.cbsnews.com

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

Political, Compromise, Crisis

Source: www.cbsnews.com

In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.

Thinking, Blue, Appreciate

Source: www.cbsnews.com

I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.

Country, Track, Battle

Source: www.cbsnews.com

We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while governing, where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the Republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. And there were times during my presidency where I lost the PR battle.

Battle, Public Opinion, Campaigns

Source: www.cbsnews.com

[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions.

Party, Two, People

Source: www.cbsnews.com

[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.

Thinking, Building Up, Organization

Source: www.cbsnews.com

First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.

Thinking, Guy, President

Source: www.cbsnews.com