Barack Obama Quotes About Free Speech

• 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

  Lying, Freedom Of Speech, Free Speech

  President Barack Obama's remarks to the People of Estonia at the Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 3, 2014.

• I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Believe, Government

• 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.

• The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Integrity, Destiny

  Source: time.com

• I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

  Barack Obama

  Cnn, Politics, Littles

  "Transcript: Obama remarks at White House Correspondents' Association dinner", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2014.

• 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

  Party, Mean, Orange

  "Obama jokes about bad 2013 at press corps dinner". "AM with Sabra Lane", www.abc.net.au. May 5, 2014.

• I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Independent

  Source: time.com

• People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Wall, Real

• Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Country, Father

  FaceBook post by Barack Obama from May 24, 2014

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