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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 43

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Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

People, Dumb Things, Towns

"Obama overstates Kansas tornado deaths". www.nbcnews.com. May 9, 2007.

I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.

Sick, Wife, Facts

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

America, Evil, Want

"Statement by the President". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 16, 2013.

I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some work to do on these issues. Human Rights Watch probably has a list of things they think we should be doing as a government.

Thinking, Issues, Rights

Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

Cutting, Office, Broken Promises

I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line

World, Lines, Red

"What Does America Think Of President Obama's 'Red Line?'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 4, 2013.

Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky.

Real, Patriotic, Thinking

"Race Moves to Center Stage". www.washingtonpost.com. August 1, 2008.

It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.

People, African American, Victory

"Obama and Democrats appeal to new voters in midterms". www.washingtonpost.com. April 26, 2010.

America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

Hope, Children, Cities

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

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

Dream, Hope, America

Pre-Inauguration Address at the Lincoln Memorial, delivered 18 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

Smart, America, Air

Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.

Daughter, Running, Children

Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.

Ideas, America, Politics

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

America, Identity, Genius

Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.231, Canongate Books

Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.

War, Fire, Iraq

When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

War, Men, Winning

2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

Self, People, Political

My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.

Years, Presidency, Five

Principal Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest's press briefing in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., www.whitehouse.gov. February 24, 2012.

Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

Iraq, Occupation, Length

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

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Jobs, Bridges, Broken

Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

Thinking, Doe, Likes

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

Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.

Thinking, Air, Car

Barack Obama's remarks at Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 29, 2013.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

World, Complicated, Found

Interview with Marilynne Robinson, www.nybooks.com. November 19, 2015.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

War, Passion, Support

Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.294, Canongate Books

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Hurt, Law, Community

Barack Obama's remarks on Ferguson, Mo. and Iraq at the White House in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 18, 2014.

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

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