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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Barack Obama
Country, War, Patriotic
Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

Barack Obama
Children, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing
Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.

Barack Obama
Christian, Believe, Gay
Speech at the Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum, transcripts.cnn.com. August 16, 2008.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Barack Obama
Believe, Hard Work, America
2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Barack Obama
Wagons, Realizing, Greatest Leadership
Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

Barack Obama
Smart, Empowering, Things To Do
Twitter post from Mar 8, 2013

Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He's a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

Barack Obama
Team, Men, Iraq
Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

Barack Obama
America, Diversity, Long
Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.

Barack Obama
Moving, Common Sense, Political

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Barack Obama
Change, Carpe Diem, Waiting
"Commentary: Obama's 'Yes we can' theme needs second act" by Alex Castellanos, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2008.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Barack Obama
Marriage, Gay, Defense
"Barack Obama in His Own Words". Book edited by Lisa Rogak, 2007.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

Barack Obama
Hope, Destiny, Men
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 3, 2017.

We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.

Barack Obama
Cities, Mind Blowing, Secret
"Obama Celebrates Ramadan: 'Islam Has Contributed To The Character Of Our Country'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 26, 2013.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

Barack Obama
Book, Mind Blowing, Greek
Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

Barack Obama
Money, Jobs, White
"Why Environmentalists Should Occupy Wall Street" by Phil Aroneanu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Barack Obama
Doubt, Spirituality, Knows
"This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, August 15, 2004.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

Barack Obama
Real, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights
Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 21, 2013.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

Barack Obama
Heart, Scripture, Amnesty
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Immigration, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 20, 2014.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

Barack Obama
Believe, Thinking, America

I think I'm the best president I've ever been right now. And I think the team that is operating right now functions as well as any team that I've had. And so, you know, there is a part of you that thinks, "Man, we're pretty good at this stuff right now." And you hate to see that talent disperse.

Barack Obama
Team, Hate, Men
Source: www.cbsnews.com

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Barack Obama
Children, Ocean, Future
Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

Barack Obama
Christian, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing
Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.

Barack Obama
Commitment, Policy Making, Sublime
Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.153, Crown

Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.

Barack Obama
Attitude, Race, Years
Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.

Barack Obama
Powerful, Heart, Thinking
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com