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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 70

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I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

People, Tough, Terrorism

"Obama on ending wars, terror trials and more". Interview with Chuck Todd, www.today.com. November 18, 2009.

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

Years, Mentor, Reverends

Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.

Sports, Mean, Numbers

President Obama Pennsylvania Health Care Remarks, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2010.

After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.

Country, Tired, Responsibility

"Obama hails return to PAYGO" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. February 13, 2010.

The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.

Girl, Teenage, Block

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.157, Canongate Books

You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

Crazy, Heart, Fate

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.311, Broadway Books

So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

Hard Work, Responsibility, Yes We Can

President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

Pie, Growing, Revolution

Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.156, Canongate Books

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

Way, Firsts, Congress

My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

Sinner

Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

Children, Twists, Chicago

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

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

Jobs, America, Done

Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Home, Tyrants, People

"The War on Libya and US Foreign Policy: Ronald Reagan, 1986 versus Barack Obama, 2011". Interview with Rick Rozoff, www.globalresearch.ca. March 28, 2011.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

Running, Moving, Thinking

Remarks at Laborfest in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 6, 2010.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Thinking, Mind, Pandemics

"Grounding a Pandemic". New York Times OpEd by Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, www.nytimes.com. June 06, 2005.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

Strong, Israel, Administration

But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Health, People, Cost

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Should Have, Principles, Bills

Address on Signing Health Care Reform Bill into Law, delivered 23 March 2010, Washington, D.C.

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Responsible Business, Class, Environmental

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

Mother, Jobs, Pain

Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Wall, Sacrifice, Liberty

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Military, Mistake, Mean

"Obama Libya Speech Strongly Defends Intervention" by Ben Feller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2011.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Goal, Trying, Bombs

Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Doctors, Care, Plans

Remarks by the President to the Annual Conference of the American Medical Association, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 15, 2009.

We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.

Jobs, Oil, Long

Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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

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