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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. -- Barack Obama
But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid. -- Barack Obama
make away out of no way -- Barack Obama
As parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this. -- Barack Obama
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK. -- Barack Obama
Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome
black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds -- Barack Obama
I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent. -- Barack Obama
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere ... That's the world! On which hope sits! -- Barack Obama
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied. -- Barack Obama
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible -- Barack Obama
It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington. -- Barack Obama
The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new technologies - we've used science; we've used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete. -- Barack Obama
Better to be strong,' he [Lolo] said ... 'if you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself. -- Barack Obama
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe. -- Barack Obama
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life. -- Barack Obama
America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both and I'll never forget those values. -- Barack Obama
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. -- Barack Obama
I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process. -- Barack Obama
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained. -- Barack Obama
There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced ... It was the silence that betrayed us." -- Barack Obama
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights. -- Barack Obama
National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents, -- Barack Obama
I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations. -- Barack Obama
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness. -- Barack Obama
We will not apologize for oour way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you. -- Barack Obama
Of the Harvard Law Review. In the wake of some modest publicity, I received an advance from a publisher and went -- Barack Obama
My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes. -- Barack Obama
I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people. -- Barack Obama
I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love. -- Barack Obama
Some people in D.C. talk about me like a dog. -- Barack Obama
[The] United States is proud to stand with you as your strongest ally and greatest friend. I see this visit as an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our nations, to restate America's unwavering commitment to Israel's security, and to speak directly to Israel and to your neighbors. -- Barack Obama
I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done. -- Barack Obama
I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections. -- Barack Obama
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. -- Barack Obama
The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment. -- Barack Obama
Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace. -- Barack Obama
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite. -- Barack Obama
The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us. -- Barack Obama
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode. -- Barack Obama
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can! -- Barack Obama
I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry. -- Barack Obama
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral. -- Barack Obama
If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. -- Barack Obama
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape. -- Barack Obama
I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family. -- Barack Obama
Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone. -- Barack Obama
Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service ... I've seen a generation eager - impatient even - to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. -- Barack Obama
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. -- Barack Obama
There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived. -- Barack Obama
Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan. -- Barack Obama
Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe. -- Barack Obama
His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon. -- Barack Obama
Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon. -- Barack Obama
I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track. -- Barack Obama
Being gay or lesbian is not a choice. -- Barack Obama
Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law. -- Barack Obama
We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority. -- Barack Obama
Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns. -- Barack Obama
The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. -- Barack Obama
Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind. -- Barack Obama
In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them. -- Barack Obama
I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago -- Barack Obama
I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it's that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now. -- Barack Obama
I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified. -- Barack Obama
My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy. -- Barack Obama
Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy. -- Barack Obama
Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost ... May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds. -- Barack Obama
America will rise again. And hope will rise again. -- Barack Obama
I've been very good for gun manufacturers. -- Barack Obama
What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. -- Barack Obama
Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line. -- Barack Obama
Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy. -- Barack Obama
I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people. -- Barack Obama
She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America.They're not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day they work hard. They aren't seeking the limelight. All they try to do is just do the right thing. -- Barack Obama
On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future. -- Barack Obama
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime. -- Barack Obama
Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom. -- Barack Obama
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. -- Barack Obama
He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense. -- Barack Obama
I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line -- Barack Obama
We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses. -- Barack Obama
We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope. -- Barack Obama
Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. -- Barack Obama
Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity. -- Barack Obama
This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak. -- Barack Obama
I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism. -- Barack Obama
I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology. -- Barack Obama
Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. -- Barack Obama
Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels. -- Barack Obama
Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. -- Barack Obama
Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform. -- Barack Obama
A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it. -- Barack Obama
These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works -- Barack Obama
These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black. -- Barack Obama
I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need. -- Barack Obama
We remember the specter of sectarian violence
al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future. -- Barack Obama
We remember the grind of the insurgency
the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south
your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it. -- Barack Obama
The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics ... When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems. -- Barack Obama
Back in the '50s and '60s, most politicians were concerned about not talking about faith, partly because there were consequences you had to deal with - (for instance) Catholicism had been made an issue. -- Barack Obama
It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well. -- Barack Obama
A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future. -- Barack Obama
There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding. -- Barack Obama
In the face of our common dangers, in this wintr of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. -- Barack Obama
We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age. -- Barack Obama
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. -- Barack Obama
With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate. -- Barack Obama
As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results. -- Barack Obama
The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. -- Barack Obama
After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective. -- Barack Obama
Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. -- Barack Obama
Introduction, the opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American president of the Harvard -- Barack Obama
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. -- Barack Obama
Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction. -- Barack Obama
I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea. -- Barack Obama
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
Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it. -- Barack Obama
Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst
assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values. -- Barack Obama
I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want. -- Barack Obama
Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act. -- Barack Obama
We are God's partners in matters of life and death. -- Barack Obama
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. -- Barack Obama
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity. -- Barack Obama
There is no doubt that thanks to the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and to rebuild it on a new foundation, we are entering into the new year with new confidence that America is coming back. -- Barack Obama
I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make. -- Barack Obama
Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example. -- Barack Obama
The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras. -- Barack Obama
What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future. -- Barack Obama
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. -- Barack Obama
The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil. -- Barack Obama
I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton]. -- Barack Obama
We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world. -- Barack Obama
I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven. -- Barack Obama
Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. -- Barack Obama
Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result. -- Barack Obama
Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money. -- Barack Obama
The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong. -- Barack Obama
The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong. -- Barack Obama
I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy. -- Barack Obama
As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world. -- Barack Obama
Later, when I became more familiar with the narrower path to happiness to be found in television and the movies, I'd become troubled by questions. -- Barack Obama
I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline ... What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake ... We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks. -- Barack Obama
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. -- Barack Obama
One of the great strengths of the United States is ... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. -- Barack Obama
Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it. -- Barack Obama
Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. -- Barack Obama
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. -- Barack Obama
That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own. -- Barack Obama
Progressives should recognize common morality with religion. -- Barack Obama
I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis. -- Barack Obama
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest. -- Barack Obama
No one is exempt from the call to find common ground. -- Barack Obama
In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share. -- Barack Obama
This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity. -- Barack Obama
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease. -- Barack Obama
Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans. -- Barack Obama
It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse. -- Barack Obama
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. -- Barack Obama
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice. -- Barack Obama
We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream. -- Barack Obama
We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence. -- Barack Obama
We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself ... -- Barack Obama
The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon. -- Barack Obama
I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong believer that there are certain common goods - our air, our water, making sure that people are safe - that require to have some regulation. -- Barack Obama
Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense. -- Barack Obama
It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals. -- Barack Obama
"Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?" -- Barack Obama
When friends are in trouble, America Helps. -- Barack Obama
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education. -- Barack Obama
If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land. -- Barack Obama
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest. -- Barack Obama
People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live. -- Barack Obama
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. -- Barack Obama
For the United States of America, the best is yet to come. -- Barack Obama
Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush. -- Barack Obama
I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm. -- Barack Obama
We are convinced, as some of you may be convinced, that changing the way we produce and use energy is essential to America's economic future, that it will create millions of new jobs, power new industries, keep us competitive, and spark new innovation. -- Barack Obama
Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too. -- Barack Obama
To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. -- Barack Obama
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own. -- Barack Obama
There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified. -- Barack Obama
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
Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. -- Barack Obama
My first term I sang Al Green ... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy . -- Barack Obama
I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. -- Barack Obama
Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy. -- Barack Obama
You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution. -- Barack Obama
I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation. -- Barack Obama
When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face. -- Barack Obama
There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else. -- Barack Obama
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. -- Barack Obama
The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart. -- Barack Obama
I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done. -- Barack Obama
I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger. -- Barack Obama
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed -- Barack Obama
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them. -- Barack Obama
Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go. -- Barack Obama
I'm not just a candidate, I'm the President -- Barack Obama
No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere. -- Barack Obama
It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. -- Barack Obama
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation. -- Barack Obama
I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year. -- Barack Obama
The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide. -- Barack Obama
We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time. -- Barack Obama
I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. -- Barack Obama
On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream. -- Barack Obama
True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history. -- Barack Obama
A woman named Helen Keller fought her way through long, silent darkness.
Though she could not see or hear;
she taught us to look at and listen to each other.
Never waiting for life to get easier,
she gave others courage to face their challenges. -- Barack Obama
If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence. -- Barack Obama
I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died. -- Barack Obama
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. -- Barack Obama
The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world. -- Barack Obama
We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you. -- Barack Obama
Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed. -- Barack Obama
My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction. -- Barack Obama
Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city. And as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way. -- Barack Obama
We live in a complex world and at a challenging time, -- Barack Obama
I only know what I have seen. What I have not seen doesn't make my heart heavy. -- Barack Obama
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues. -- Barack Obama
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
It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient -- Barack Obama
Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security. -- Barack Obama
Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you. -- Barack Obama
Iran has to live up to its international obligations ... The president has said that our patience is not unlimited. -- Barack Obama
I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it. -- Barack Obama
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others! -- Barack Obama
And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. -- Barack Obama
I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be. -- Barack Obama
Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India-with soaring energy needs-don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change. -- Barack Obama
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create. -- Barack Obama
We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. -- Barack Obama
Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth. -- Barack Obama
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington. -- Barack Obama
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. -- Barack Obama
Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution. -- Barack Obama
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. -- Barack Obama
I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol. -- Barack Obama
And there's been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. And that's something that we intend to fix - this year. -- Barack Obama
The market alone can't solve our health-care woes. -- Barack Obama
The evangelists' success 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
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
We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam. -- Barack Obama
If we don't uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time that will make us less safe. And that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like al-Qaida. That's what I've gotta keep my eye on. -- Barack Obama
Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us. -- Barack Obama
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void -- Barack Obama
The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still ... -- Barack Obama
My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20, and working and paying the bills, and, you know, trying to pursue your own dreams, I think is a feat that is unmatched. -- Barack Obama
The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people. -- Barack Obama
We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it. -- Barack Obama
The big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition. -- Barack Obama
I don't know what the word is in Austrian. -- Barack Obama
We are made for this moment, and we will seize it-so long as we seize it together. -- Barack Obama
I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright. -- Barack Obama
I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months. -- Barack Obama
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets. -- Barack Obama
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well. -- Barack Obama
You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love. -- Barack Obama
I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not. -- Barack Obama
We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward. -- Barack Obama
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". -- Barack Obama
I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress. -- Barack Obama
If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work. -- Barack Obama
If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election. -- Barack Obama
This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. -- Barack Obama
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution. -- Barack Obama
[J]ust from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? ... Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families. -- Barack Obama
I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds -- Barack Obama
We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year. -- Barack Obama
American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves. -- Barack Obama
Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. -- Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. -- Barack Obama
Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. That -- Barack Obama
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you -- Barack Obama
We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, certainly we've got an obligation to try. -- Barack Obama
That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed. -- Barack Obama
There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening
when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace. -- Barack Obama
Church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I'd get some version of the same two questions. "Where'd you get that funny name?" And then: "You seem -- Barack Obama
Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that. -- Barack Obama
For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis is not only bad taste, it's bad strategy-and I will not tolerate it as president. -- Barack Obama
It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you. -- Barack Obama
While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did. -- Barack Obama
Why hang out with celebrities when I can hang out with the people who made me one? -- Barack Obama
All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American. -- Barack Obama
There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008 ... That's why, over the past six years, we've done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it. -- Barack Obama
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by. -- Barack Obama
It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela. -- Barack Obama
Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat. -- Barack Obama
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. -- Barack Obama
With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States. -- Barack Obama
Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true. -- Barack Obama
For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye. -- Barack Obama
A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy. -- Barack Obama
I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that. -- Barack Obama
Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere. -- Barack Obama
Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post. -- Barack Obama
We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. -- Barack Obama
We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late. -- Barack Obama
We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work. -- Barack Obama
Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it. -- Barack Obama
We will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities -- Barack Obama
We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world. -- Barack Obama
Hope
Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us ... A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead. -- Barack Obama
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my family had come together and come apart - sorting all that out, you know, issues of personal identity. -- Barack Obama
The country deserves us to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good. -- Barack Obama
Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people. -- Barack Obama
Iran won't pursue nuclear weapons because 'it's contrary to their faith.' -- Barack Obama
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
Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. -- Barack Obama
The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system. -- Barack Obama
I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned. -- Barack Obama
We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together. -- Barack Obama
Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports. -- Barack Obama
I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots. -- Barack Obama
Don't just buy a new video game, make one.
Don't just download the latest app, help design it.
Don't just play on your phone, program it. -- Barack Obama
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
One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world ... -- Barack Obama
If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope. -- Barack Obama
After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. -- Barack Obama
I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. -- Barack Obama
You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about. -- Barack Obama
Iran has made vile comments, anti-Semitic comments, comments about the destruction of Israel. It is precisely for that reason that even before I became president, I said Iran could not have a nuclear weapon. -- Barack Obama
The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to remain vigilant about it. We're not going to waver in the defense of our security or that of our allies and partners. -- Barack Obama
Churches won't work with you, though, just out of the goodness of their hearts. They'll talk a good game-a sermon on Sunday, maybe, or a special offering for the homeless. But if push comes to show, they won't really move unless you can show them how it'll help them pay their heating bill. -- Barack Obama
If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan. -- Barack Obama
Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country -- Barack Obama
The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology. -- Barack Obama
Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed. -- Barack Obama
It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us. -- Barack Obama
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech
because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth. -- Barack Obama
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. -- Barack Obama
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. -- Barack Obama
We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. -- Barack Obama
Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana. -- Barack Obama
I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective. -- Barack Obama
I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup. -- Barack Obama
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. -- Barack Obama
If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can. -- Barack Obama
For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King's side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin's memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love. -- Barack Obama
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day. -- Barack Obama
This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal. -- Barack Obama
John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. -- Barack Obama
Finally, there are the dangers inherent in any autobiographical work: the temptation to color events in ways favorable to the writer, the tendency to overestimate the interest one's experiences hold for others, -- Barack Obama
I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species. -- Barack Obama
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House. -- Barack Obama
We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence. -- Barack Obama
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other. -- Barack Obama
I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football. -- Barack Obama
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. -- Barack Obama
Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns. -- Barack Obama
I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking. -- Barack Obama
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. -- Barack Obama
To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear. -- Barack Obama
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. -- Barack Obama
That window is closing ... Now, the clock is ticking ... We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process ... We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate -- Barack Obama
Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever. -- Barack Obama
Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate. -- Barack Obama
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity. -- Barack Obama
Ultimately, there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation. -- Barack Obama
More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose. -- Barack Obama
This is the moment we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. -- Barack Obama
Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity. -- Barack Obama
There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story. -- Barack Obama
Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess. -- Barack Obama
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. -- Barack Obama
Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. -- Barack Obama
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man. -- Barack Obama
America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. -- Barack Obama
You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers? -- Barack Obama
Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant. -- Barack Obama
It's what passes for wisdom, being ironic and cynical. -- Barack Obama
The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states. -- Barack Obama
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government. -- Barack Obama
I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon -- Barack Obama
It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else. -- Barack Obama
Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states. -- Barack Obama
What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about. -- Barack Obama
I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one. -- Barack Obama
Michelle, I love you so much. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, we are so proud of you - and yes you do have to go to school in the morning. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for. -- Barack Obama
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you. -- Barack Obama
Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health. -- Barack Obama
I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. -- Barack Obama
Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination. -- Barack Obama
If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance - this law will only make it more secure and more affordable. -- Barack Obama
You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire. -- Barack Obama
Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close. -- Barack Obama
Like politics? I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I'd first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It -- Barack Obama
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
In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education. -- Barack Obama
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. -- Barack Obama
But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality. -- Barack Obama
There is no doubt that the actions of ISIS are designed to amplify their power and the threat that they pose. That helps them recruit. That adds in the twisted thoughts of some young person that they might want to have carry out an action that somehow they're part of a larger movement. -- Barack Obama
We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. -- Barack Obama
Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces". -- Barack Obama
We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one. -- Barack Obama
If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights. -- Barack Obama
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
We are the change we have been waiting for. -- Barack Obama
If Iran cheats, the world will know it. -- Barack Obama
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. -- Barack Obama
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. -- Barack Obama
I would say to people is, that investigation, as it has already been stated, is a marathon and not a sprint. But it is one of great concern to the American people. And so we're committed to keeping people informed. -- Barack Obama
The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. -- Barack Obama
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models. -- Barack Obama
No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together. -- Barack Obama
I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe. -- Barack Obama
If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership. -- Barack Obama
this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ..."~~Barack Obama upon winning the Democratic nomination for presidency conveys his thinking of what that means ....for the world, Tuesday, JUNE 03, 2008 -- Barack Obama
In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group. -- Barack Obama
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow -- Barack Obama
Those jeans are comfortable, and for those of you who want your president to look great in his tight jeans, I'm sorry I'm not the guy. It just doesn't fit me. I'm not 20. -- Barack Obama
The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. -- Barack Obama
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology -- Barack Obama
We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States. -- Barack Obama
If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost. -- Barack Obama
Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.b -- Barack Obama
We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America. -- Barack Obama
Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho. -- Barack Obama
For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change. -- Barack Obama
Together, we're going to finish the job we started. -- Barack Obama
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. -- Barack Obama
Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States. -- Barack Obama
Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new. -- Barack Obama
What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead. -- Barack Obama
If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all. -- Barack Obama
One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic. -- Barack Obama
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality -- Barack Obama
The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever. -- Barack Obama
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. -- Barack Obama
If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women -- Barack Obama
It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. -- Barack Obama
In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality. -- Barack Obama
It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point. -- Barack Obama
If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that too. -- Barack Obama
One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be. -- Barack Obama
America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams. -- Barack Obama
Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock. -- Barack Obama
What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives. -- Barack Obama
I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources. -- Barack Obama
I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out. -- Barack Obama
I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal. -- Barack Obama
ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion. -- Barack Obama
I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values. -- Barack Obama
A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself. -- Barack Obama
Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the Syrian regime. We are going after ISIL facilities and personnel who are using Syria as a safe haven, in service of our strategy in Iraq. -- Barack Obama
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. -- Barack Obama
We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take. -- Barack Obama
And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it. -- Barack Obama
Let us endure these storms. -- Barack Obama
As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and to the simple idea that we ought to recognize ourselves in the struggle of our fellow men and women. -- Barack Obama
And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth ... -- Barack Obama
I like being president because i get a cool house -- Barack Obama
Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges. -- Barack Obama
It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election. -- Barack Obama
I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules. -- Barack Obama
Our journey is not complete until all our children ... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm. -- Barack Obama
You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas. -- Barack Obama
When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race. -- Barack Obama
As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues. -- Barack Obama
For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing. -- Barack Obama
But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values. -- Barack Obama
Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. -- Barack Obama
For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. -- Barack Obama
Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous. -- Barack Obama
The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is enduring, and the United Kingdom's membership in Nato remains a vital cornerstone of US foreign, security and economic policy. -- Barack Obama
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. -- Barack Obama
What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it. -- Barack Obama
I have nothing to hide, I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween. -- Barack Obama
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education. -- Barack Obama
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. -- Barack Obama
I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve. -- Barack Obama
I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal health care plan -- Barack Obama
We're not going to have you burdening the health system. -- Barack Obama
Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs. -- Barack Obama
Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. -- Barack Obama
But another thing I know is this - we can't steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can't change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that's what this election is all about. -- Barack Obama
I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors ... who specialize in terrorism. -- Barack Obama
The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges. -- Barack Obama
[About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to
I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point. -- Barack Obama
As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we. -- Barack Obama
We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet. -- Barack Obama
Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it. -- Barack Obama
I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
They spend half they lives worrying about what white folks think. -- Barack Obama
If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country. -- Barack Obama
Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, 'Made in the USA! -- Barack Obama
The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies and that opportunities should be available to all. Throughout its own extraordinary history, Israel has given life to that promise. -- Barack Obama
When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill. -- Barack Obama
Andrew Cuomo own story taught Andrew Cuomo that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few. -- Barack Obama
We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles. -- Barack Obama
We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. -- Barack Obama
Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work. -- Barack Obama
So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end. -- Barack Obama
Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond. -- Barack Obama
Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed. -- Barack Obama
That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage. -- Barack Obama
The Affordable Care Act is here to stay. -- Barack Obama
Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams. -- Barack Obama
Illinois preschoolers were temporarily saved from the debilitating effects of cereal and milk. -- Barack Obama
Where there is no experience the wise man is silent. -- Barack Obama
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes ... -- Barack Obama
You're likable enough, Hillary. -- Barack Obama
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. -- Barack Obama
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. -- Barack Obama
If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things. -- Barack Obama
Like any value, empathy must be acted upon. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Barack Obama
Otherwise, though, the ambitions they had carried with them to Hawaii had slowly drained away, until regularity
of schedules and pastimes ad the weather
became their principal consolation. -- Barack Obama
Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here. -- Barack Obama
I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me. -- Barack Obama
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done. -- Barack Obama
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there.
At least that's what I would choose to believe. -- Barack Obama
When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up. -- Barack Obama
We have our own ways, our own memories, and what has happened between all of us is hard to undo. -- Barack Obama
America's promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That's one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office. -- Barack Obama
We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning ... -- Barack Obama
Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends. -- Barack Obama
I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern. -- Barack Obama
I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems. -- Barack Obama
I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries. -- Barack Obama
I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat-cat bankers on Wall Street. -- Barack Obama
People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better. -- Barack Obama
Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other. -- Barack Obama
I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us. -- Barack Obama
I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second. -- Barack Obama