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Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do

Yes, this is hard. But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation - developed and developing alike. Nobody gets a pass.

Barack Obama
Responsibility, Creating, America
"Obama urges climate action" by Elana Schor, www.politico.com. September 23, 2014.

Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.

Barack Obama
Running, Father, Thinking
"Is Obama Implicated By The Blagojevich Scandal?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 12, 2008.

If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

Barack Obama
Cutting, Technology, America

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

Barack Obama
Oil, Survival, Alternatives
First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

Barack Obama
Teacher, Struggle, Fall
"Petition Response: On Conversion Therapy". Barack Obama's statement on the petition on conversion therapy at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 8, 2015.

My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai.

Barack Obama
Bridges, Two, Numbers
"An interview with the president". Interview with John Micklethwait and Edward Carr, www.economist.com. August 2, 2014.

Change has come to America.

Barack Obama
Change, America
President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

Barack Obama
America, Effort, World
"Guantanamo Bay Still Unresolved". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 14, 2013.

I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.

Barack Obama
Thinking, Land, Differences

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

Barack Obama
Simple, Odds, Yes We Can
Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.

Barack Obama
Country, War, Struggle
"Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2007.

Our enemies are fully aware that they can use oil as a weapon against America. And if we don't take this threat as seriously as the bombs they build or the guns they buy, we will be fighting the War on Terror with one hand tied behind our back.

Barack Obama
War, Fighting, Gun

Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

Barack Obama
Issues, Listening, Religion
"The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.

Barack Obama
Dream, Memories, War
Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq, delivered 27 February 2009, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

Do something, Congress. Do anything.

Barack Obama
Congress
Twitter post from Jul 12, 2014

I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

Barack Obama
Blue, America, Broken Promises
"Obama misled with 'hope and change'" by Reince Priebus, www.politico.com. April 03, 2012.

This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.

Barack Obama
Religious, Moving, Cynical

I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.

Barack Obama
Opportunity, Thinking, Race
"After the Great Recession". Interview with David Leonhardt, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defense against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding around the globe – to forge greater cooperation, to expand new markets, to free people from fear and want. And no one is better positioned to take advantage of those opportunities than America.

Barack Obama
Opportunity, America, People
Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

Barack Obama
Ideas, Political, Challenges
Barack Obama's remarks on the Federal Budget in Room 350 of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 2009.

America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Barack Obama
Struggle, Commitment, Sacrifice
Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

There's something about the American spirit -– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children –- not just here in the United States, but all around the world.

Barack Obama
Children, Moving, Past

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

Barack Obama
Jobs, Issues, People

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

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

Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.

Barack Obama
Names, Years, Perspective