Barack Obama Quotes About Children

• We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Children, Honor

  "Obama Speaks at Selma's "Bloody Sunday" 50th Anniversary" by Natalie Stone, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2015.

• 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

  Children, Climate, Hoaxes

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

• Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Eye, Journey

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Nice, Issues

  "State of the Union Recap: Key Points You Need to Know from President Obama's 2015 Address" by Caitlin Moscatello, www.glamour.com. January 20, 2015.

• This is the moment when 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

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

• One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Quality, Life Is

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

• Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Father, Fool

  "CBS's Smith to 'Father-in-Chief' Obama: 'Where Did You Learn to Love?'". www.newsbusters.org. June 22, 2009.

• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Cousin, Brother

  News Conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

• In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Wall, Eye

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Focus, Effort

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

• When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland. When I went to Sderot and saw the daily struggle to survive in the eyes of an eight-year-old boy who lost his leg to a Hamas rocket, and when I walked among the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, I was reminded of the existential fear of Israelis when a modern dictator seeks nuclear weapons and threatens to wipe Israel off the face of the map - face of the Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Prayer, Children, Wall

• The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, Cities

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.258, Broadway Books

• At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

  Barack Obama

  Children, Forever, Magic

• Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Book, Reading

• We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

  Barack Obama

  Children, Knowing, Generations

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

• The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids -- when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that's happening, the system just isn't working.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Barack Obama's Addresse to the National Council of La Raza, www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 2008.

• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Blood, Sweat

  "2008: The year in review" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.

• America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

  Barack Obama

  Children, America, Want

• 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

  Jobs, Children, Father

  "Barack Obama: 'We Need Fathers To Step Up'" by Barack Obama, parade.com. June 16, 2011.

• 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

  Running, Mother, Children

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

• A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Work Ethic

  "U.S. Agriculture Secretary 'Convinced' Rural Revitalization Plan Will Work". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 15, 2014.

• What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Men, Ability

  "Remarks By The President On Strengthening The Economy For The Middle Class". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 15, 2013.

• For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Climate, Sake

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

• 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

  Children, Mean, America

  "Head Snapping Hypocrisy From Reid and Obama On the Debt Ceiling" by Karl Rove, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2011.

• And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teacher, Children

  "Pay teachers more money & treat them like professionals". Barack Obama's speech at the Take Back America 2007 Conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future, www.ontheissues.org. June 19, 2007.

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