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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 38

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Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in

Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

America, Two, Choices

Barack Obama's News Conference on the debt ceiling, fiscal battles and gun control, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 14, 2013.

If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.

Daughter, Sleep, Night

Obama's Speech in Sderot, Israel, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2008.

If you're willing to put in the work, the idea is that you should be able to raise a family and own a home, not go bankrupt because you got sick, 'cause you've got some health insurance that helps you deal with those difficult times; that you can send your kids to college; that you can put some money away for retirement. That's all most people want. Folks don't have unrealistic ambitions. They do believe that if they work hard, they should be able to achieve that small measure of an American dream.

Dream, Retirement, Believe

Remarks by the President at Conveyor Engineering and Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 25, 2012.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Opportunity, Should Have, Ideas

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

Friendship, United States, Arabia

Barack Obama's remarks during his meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in the Oval Office, Wshington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 13, 2015.

There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

Change, Climate, World

We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.

Change, Thinking, Government

Remarks by the President in Immigration Town Hall - Miami, FL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 25, 2015.

It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

Country, People, Justice

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

No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla's captivity and death, ISIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla.

Long, People, Justice

Statement by the President on the Death of Kayla Jean Mueller, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 10, 2015.

America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.

Strong, America, Israel

A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

Good afternoon, everybody-ugh, Jesus, gimme a sec.

Jesus, Afternoon, Ugh

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

Powerful, Heart, Empathy

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

Powerful, Thinking, Issues

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill.

Done, Bills, Vote

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

Pages, Information, Empires

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

Rate, Clear, Folks

Remarks by the President on Preventing an Income Tax Increase on the Middle Class, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2012.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Want, Economic, Holes

"President Obama Speaks in Wisconsin". "Rick's List" with Rick Sanchez, edition.cnn.com. September 6, 2010.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

People, House, President

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Anniversary, Jobs, Fighting

"New Orleans Residents Still Struggling To Get Back Home". Remarks from the Crescent City, www.npr.org. August 31, 2010.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

Senior, Education, Cutting

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

Teaching, Self, Issues

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.190, Canongate Books

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

Greatness, Men, Journey

First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

Spy, Citizens, Use

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.

Awards, Greed, President

"Obama Announces Executive Pay Caps". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it's religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think there's a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.

Country, Religious, Character

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

Quotes: 3124

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