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I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those

I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

Barack Obama
Jobs, Thinking, People
Source: time.com

One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers.

Barack Obama
Military, Leader, President
"Report: Obama Holds First News Conference Since Election". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2016.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

Barack Obama
Believe, Ideas, People
Source: time.com

I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.

Barack Obama
Country, Jobs, Government
Source: time.com

For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.

Barack Obama
Believe, Heart, Eight
Barack Obama, Michelle Obama (2017). “Farewell Speeches”, p.28, Melville House

If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

Barack Obama
Kids, Class, People
Source: www.theatlantic.com

The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

Barack Obama
Race, Law, African American
Source: www.theatlantic.com

The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.

Barack Obama
Years, White, America
Source: www.theatlantic.com

I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

Barack Obama
Jobs, Thinking, People
Source: abcnews.go.com

I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

Barack Obama
Mom, Smart, School
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

Barack Obama
Thinking, President
Source: www.nytimes.com

The ideals and the values of the United States inspired the entire world. I don't think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same. And part of what we need to do is to send a message to the world that we are going to invest in issues like education, we are going to invest in issues that relate to how ordinary people are able to live out their dreams. And that is something that I'm going to be committed to as president of the United States.

Barack Obama
Dream, Children, Thinking
Source: www.nytimes.com

I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.

Barack Obama
Thinking, Risk, Innovation
Source: www.cbsnews.com

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Barack Obama
Friendship, Israel, World
Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.

Barack Obama
America, Islam, United States
"A Paradigm to Jump-Start U.S.-Muslim Relations" by John L. Esposito, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

Barack Obama
Top Down, Want, Kind
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

Barack Obama
Years, Feelings, Doe
Source: www.slate.com

I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.

Barack Obama
Running, Player, Guy
"A Tribute to Barack Obama's Once Great Basketball Skills" by Jack Moore, www.gq.com. August 4, 2015.

You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.

Barack Obama
Fearless, Littles, Might
"Protesters Rally to Take Down Confederate Flag; Confederate Flag Fight Shifting to Mississippi; Governor and Senators Call for Flag's Removal; Walmart CEO Speaks Out; Prisoners Left Cabin in a Hurry; Confederate Merchandise Dropped; Confederate Flag Debate". "Wolf", www.cnn.com. June 23, 2015.

The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.

Barack Obama
Winning, Important, Population
Source: www.nbcnews.com

I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

Barack Obama
Thinking, Years, Two
Source: www.nbcnews.com

America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.

Barack Obama
Country, Strong, Blessed
"Ferraro and Thompson". "Hannity & Colmes", www.realclearpolitics.com. June 19, 2008.

The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans.

Barack Obama
Sacrifice, Men, Blood
Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

Barack Obama
Mad, Half, Kind
Source: www.nbcnews.com

What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors.

Barack Obama
America, Damn, Be Good
Source: www.nbcnews.com