Barack Obama Quotes About Elections

• Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Democracy, Steps

• 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

• You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

  Barack Obama

  School, Boards, Levels

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Bayonets, Aircraft Carriers

  Third presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Boca Raton, Fla., www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

• If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

  Barack Obama

  Election, Presidential Election, Gangnam Style

  Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

• In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Election, Cynicism

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand

• I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Identity, Movement

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

• One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Full Transcript: : President Obama’s Sept. 30 remarks on the looming government shutdown". www.washingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

• 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

  Country, Winning, Two

  "Obama wants new approach after shutdown" by Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

• "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

  Running, Sex, Gay

• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

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

• Please proceed, Governor.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Election, Please

  Presidential debate transcript, questions, www.politico.com. October 16, 2012.

• I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

  Barack Obama

  Long, Looks, Election

  Second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y, www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2012.

• I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Political, Black

  "CBS’s Smith Skeptical of Book on Obamas; No Doubts With Anti-Bush Book". Interview with David Letterman, www.newsbusters.org. September 22, 2009.

• 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

  Together, Who We Are, Election

• 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.

• Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Political, Election

  "The Candidate: How the son of a Kenyan economist became an Illinois Everyman". www.newyorker.com. May 31, 2004.

• For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Believe

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

• If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Election, Shows

  Barack Obama's Speech at a Rally for Senator Murray in Seattle, Washington, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 21, 2010.

• For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mean, Two

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.317, Canongate Books

• I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Election, Difficult

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

• In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

  Barack Obama

  America, Presidential, Voting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I think my most important advice is to understand what are the foundations of a healthy democracy and how we have to engage in citizenship continuously, not just when something upsets us; not just when there's an election or when an issue pops up for a few weeks. It's hard work.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Thinking, Issues

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

• I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: time.com

• I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

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