Barack Obama Quotes About Excuses

• Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Tools, Excuse

  "Obama to new grads: 'No time for excuses'" by Mark Morgenstein, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2013.

• 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

  Tired, Fundamentals, Global Warming

  "Coal-state Dems chisel away at Obama climate plan". www.foxnews.com. June 29, 2013.

• 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

  Strong, Agreement, Years

  Barack Obama's remarks at G20 Press Conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center in Brisbane, Australia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 16, 2014.

• There is no excuse for not trying.

  Barack Obama

  Trying, No Excuses, Excuse

  "Obama school speech steers clear of politics". www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2009.

• But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Writing, Destiny

  Barack Obama's back-to-school speech at Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2009.

• I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sex, Children

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

• The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

  Barack Obama

  Criminals, Politics, Saws

  "At This Hour" with Kate Bolduan and John Berman, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2015.

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