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I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

Barack Obama
Blessed, White, House
Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2010.

We must build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination. ... policies must be developed, attitudes must be shaped, and buildings and organizations must be designed to ensure that everyone has a chance to get the education they need and live independently as full citizens in their communities.

Barack Obama
Attitude, Organization, Community
"Obama Statement in Support of World Autism Awareness Day and Awareness Month". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 2, 2008.

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

Barack Obama
Character, Responsibility, Giving
First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.

Barack Obama
Skills, America, People

Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books... Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own... Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that's not how - that's not how our system works. That's not how our democracy functions. Thats not how our Constitution is written.

Barack Obama
Believe, Book, Law
President Barack Obama's remarks to the National Council of La Raza, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 25, 2011.

One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.

Barack Obama
Thinking, People, Hopeful
Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic Presidential Debate on MSNBC at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2007.

On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. And we commit ourselves to upholding the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died.

Barack Obama
Memorial Day, Giving, Together

We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

Barack Obama
Country, Gun, Mass Shootings
"CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

Barack Obama
Truth, 4th Of July, Patriotic
Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis.

Barack Obama
Democracy, Ongoing, Refreshing
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy.

Barack Obama
Immigration, Economy, Orderly
"President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids -- when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that's happening, the system just isn't working.

Barack Obama
Mother, Baby, Children
Barack Obama's Addresse to the National Council of La Raza, www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 2008.

Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

Barack Obama
Country, Opportunity, Journey
Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.

Barack Obama
Justice, Evil, Community
"CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.

Barack Obama
Dream, Imagination, Empathy
Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

Barack Obama
America, Challenges, Energy
"Obama lays out environmental proposals in a video address to green governor" by Daniel Nasaw, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2008.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

Barack Obama
Girl, Heart, Littles

What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.

Barack Obama
Stress, Believe, Hype
"REV. JEREMIAH A. WRIGHT, JR.: Pastor inspires Obama's 'audacity'". www.chicagotribune.com. January 21, 2007.

The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.

Barack Obama
Country, Integrity, Destiny
Source: time.com

What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.

Barack Obama
Cities, Names, Community
Remarks by the President in Town Hall at Benedict College, Columbia, SC, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 06, 2015.

When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We've got more security resources at the border - more National Guard, more border guards, you name it - than the previous administration. So we've ramped up significantly the issue of border security.

Barack Obama
Names, Issues, Immigration
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

Barack Obama
Country, Believe, Native American

Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

Barack Obama
Integrity, Government, Speaks Out
"Obama Urged to Back New Whistleblower Act" by Ed O'Keefe, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 2009.

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

Barack Obama
Leadership, Money, Party
"Full Transcript: : President Obama’s Sept. 30 remarks on the looming government shutdown". www.washingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners.

Barack Obama
Believe, Wealth, Owners