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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 17

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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Inspirational, Work, Nice

We are running out of time

Running, Running Out Of Time

Twitter post from Sep 21, 2013

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

Girl, Country, Moving

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Success, Encouragement, Money

Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

Inspiring, Days Like This, Citizens

President Barack Obama's Remarks on the Boston Marathon explosions at the White House, Washington, D.C., insider.foxnews.com. April 15, 2013.

Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.

Jobs, Kids, Thinking

Source: www.patheos.com

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

Brother, Gay, Journey

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

Teacher, 4th Of July, Men

Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

Country, War, America

Barack Obama's Speech in Immigration Town Hall in Miami, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 25, 2015.

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

Atmosphere, Truth Is, Pollution

Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.

Technology, Thinking, Needs

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Dream, Country, Brother

2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.

Teacher, School, Boys

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

Responsibility, Suffering, Together

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

... the country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

Country, Compromise, Greater Good

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

Jobs, Passing On, World

I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.

War, Long Ago, Government

Source: www.npr.org

If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.

Doctors, Choices, Employers

What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

What Matters, Matter, Wells

"The Tragedy: A Teachable Moment For Soul-Searching" by Jill Lynne, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways.

Country, Important, Addresses

Source: time.com

ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion.

Fashion, Isis, Organization

Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

Thinking, Office, President

Source: time.com

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

Victory, Chance

President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

When times change, so must we.

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

People, Pro Life, Together

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.