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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 22

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The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'

The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'

Mind Blowing, Islam, Hussein

"Obama’s speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths" By Greg Barrett, www.huffingtonpost.com.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Presidential, Political, Adults

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Money, Educational, Responsibility

Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.

Summer, Winter, Years

Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

Moving, Responsibility, Race

"Huckabee: Muslim Can Be President; Obama 'Pretends to Be' Christian, Makes Living Out Faith Difficult" by Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. September 23, 2015.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

Sorry, Powerful, Kind

"Barack Obama's Remarks on Feb. 12 Primaries". www.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2008.

We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

Inspirational, Challenges, Age

I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

Directors, Clinton, Pending

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.

Community, Legacy, World

"Lou Dobbs Tonight" with Lou Dobbs, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2009.

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

Leadership, Science, Technology

"CNN Newsroom" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2015.

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

Reflection, Race, Missing

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.124, Broadway Books

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

Cutting, Class, Lasts

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

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

Running, Children, Honor

"Obama Speaks at Selma's "Bloody Sunday" 50th Anniversary" by Natalie Stone, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2015.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

Jobs, Children, Father

"Barack Obama: 'We Need Fathers To Step Up'" by Barack Obama, parade.com. June 16, 2011.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Leadership, Country, Home

"Obama's Oval Office Hypocrisy" by Steven Milloy, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2009.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

Dog, Mutts, Shelter

"No Rest For Obama". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 8, 2008.

To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

Voice, Support, Unity

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

I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

Believe, Safe Haven, Order

Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.

Believe, Years, America

Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

Church, Christ, Jeremiah

As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

Thinking, Long, Majority

Source: www.theatlantic.com

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

Ideas, America, People

"Obama: Trump's speech 'doesn't really jibe' with facts". www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2016.

If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

Mistake, Recovery, Cutting

"President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2016.

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

School, Boards, Levels

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

Inspirational, Dream, Moving

"The Audacity of Hope". Book by Barack Obama, www.npr.org. October 17, 2006.

Born: b. August 4, 1961
Occupation: 44th U.S. President

Quotes: 3124

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