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Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a

Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of "You know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife... wow!"

Barack Obama
Strong Women, Smart, Thinking
"The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

Barack Obama
Used, Young, Socialist
"The diplomat-studded and desirable neighborhood the Obamas look set to call home" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2016.

Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat - from Gaza to Tehran.

Barack Obama
Military, Commitment, Israel
Obama's speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), www.npr.org. June 4, 2008.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

Barack Obama
Top Down, Class, Needs

I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake.

Barack Obama
Mistake, Believe, North Korea
Source: www.nytimes.com

I'd like to help struggling homeowners who can't pay their mortgages, I'd like to invest in our crumbling infrastructure, I'd like to reform the tax system so multimillionaires can't pretend their earnings are capital gains and pay at the rate of 15 percent. I'd like to make public higher education free, and pay for it with a small transfer tax on all financial transactions. I'd like to do much more - a new new deal for Americans. But Republicans are blocking me at every point.

Barack Obama
Block, Struggle, Helping

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

Barack Obama
Mind Blowing, Important, Islam
A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process.

Barack Obama
Confused, Humility, Assuming
Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

Barack Obama
President, World, Individual

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

Barack Obama
Nuclear Terrorism, America, Nuclear Proliferation
"AP Exclusive: Chile gives US weapons-grade uranium", www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2010.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, 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.

Barack Obama
Family, Christian, Mother

You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Barack Obama
Made, Unbelievable, Presidential Election
Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Barack Obama
Inspirational, Freedom, Integrity

Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

Barack Obama
War, Ignorance, Opportunity

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Barack Obama
Thinking, President, Responsible

The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

Barack Obama
Degrees, World, West
Source: www.foxnews.com

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

Barack Obama
Thinking, Tolerance, Doubt
"Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.

Barack Obama
Teacher, People, Support
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Barack Obama
Appeals, Decency
Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can.

Barack Obama
Nice, Home, Office
"Strategy Memo: Super Bowl Monday" by Mike Memoli and Kyle Trygstad, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 2, 2009.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Barack Obama
Mean, Thinking, Enough
Speech on Wall Street reform at Quincy, Illinois, April 28, 2010.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

Barack Obama
Energy, Coal, Want
"Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry". www.newsbusters.org. November 2, 2008.

I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

Barack Obama
America, Trying, President
Townhall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 31, 2008.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

Barack Obama
United States, Censorship, Dictator
Source: www.foxnews.com

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Barack Obama
Inspirational, Pride, Thinking
"Policy or Politics? Obama Learns the Hard Way He Has to Do Both" by Dan Farber, www.cbsnews.com. Policy or Politics? Obama Learns the Hard Way He Has to Do Both.