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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 125

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I absolutely think that when we talk about family, faith, community, I think it's important for Democrats to be able to connect with folks where they live.

I absolutely think that when we talk about family, faith, community, I think it's important for Democrats to be able to connect with folks where they live.

Thinking, Community, Important

Source: www.msnbc.com

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

Perfect, Unattainable

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

What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party - the more centrist wing of the party. I think we can craft an approach that is more American, pro-worker, pro-business, pro-growth.

Party, Thinking, Wings

Source: www.politico.com

What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.

Issues, Voting, Matter

Source: time.com

I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes.

Country, Mistake, Government

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

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

Team, Challenges, Hard

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

If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.

Years, Class, Black

Source: www.theatlantic.com

If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.

Vote, Reason, Members

"No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

School, Voice, People

"No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

Believe, Taken, Achievement

Source: time.com

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

Mistake, Thinking, Made

Source: www.theatlantic.com

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

Moving, Opportunity, Giving

Source: www.politico.com

If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.

Support, Might, Vote

Source: www.npr.org

[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.

People, Borders, Entrepreneurship

Source: time.com

If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down.

Views, People, Democracy

Source: time.com

I think my most important advice is to understand what are the foundations of a healthy democracy and how we have to engage in citizenship continuously, not just when something upsets us; not just when there's an election or when an issue pops up for a few weeks. It's hard work.

Hard Work, Thinking, Issues

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

If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

Country, Effort, Black

Source: www.theatlantic.com

One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact.

Powerful, Impact, Office

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Certainly I've appreciated Angela Merkel as a partner.

Appreciated, Partners, Angela

I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.

People, Trying

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

I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.

Children, Recovery, Thinking

Source: www.spiegel.de

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

Fighting, Made, Distinction

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

The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.

Frustration, Europe, Growth

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.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

Believe, Thinking, Gaps

Source: www.theatlantic.com