Barack Obama Quotes About Earth

• We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

  Barack Obama

  What Matters, People, Earth

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

• 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

  Gun, Law, America

• 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

• We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

  Barack Obama

  Earth, Global Warming, Climate Change

  Barack Obama's speech on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

• We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Stars, Fall

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

• My biggest frustration so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage. We're the only developed country on Earth where this happens. ... And it happens once a week. And it's a one-day story. ... The country has to do some soul-searching on this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Frustration, Gun

  "Remarks by the President in Q&A with David Karp, CEO of Tumblr". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 10, 2014.

• The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

  Barack Obama

  Prayer, Sunset, Sound

  "Pundits Blame the Victims on Obama Muslim Myth". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2010.

• Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Safe Haven

  Obama's Speech to Troops at Fort Bragg, www.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

• Contrary to the rumours 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

  Father, Krypton, Rumor

  "US elections: Barack Obama jokes he is Superman". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 17, 2008.

• I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, War

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

• The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Ignorance, Issues

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

• As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Fighting, Hunger And Poverty

  "Obama welcomes Hollande as French president hints at Afghan compromise" by Ewen MacAskill, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

• I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Ambition, America

  Obama's victory speech, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. November 7th, 2012.

• For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

  Barack Obama

  Self, People, Pro Life

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

• We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  People, Pro Life, Soul

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

• We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year

  Barack Obama

  Money, Powerful, Years

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Believe, Journey

  "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

• [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Two, Should Have

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

• That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Hate, Islamic, Differences

  Barack Obama's Statement on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

• Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth

  Barack Obama

  Witty, Democracies Have, Government

• In the wealthiest nation on Earth – no illness or accident should lead to any family’s financial ruin.

  Barack Obama

  Health, Earth, Ruins

  Barack Obama's speech on Supreme Court Ruling on the Affordable Care Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2012.

• 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

  Winter, Night, Clouds

• While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

  Barack Obama

  People, Earth, Gift From God

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

• Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure.

  Barack Obama

  America, Safety, World

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.304, Canongate Books

• I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

  Barack Obama

  America, Earth, Nations

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2012

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