Barack Obama Quotes About Heart

• Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Scripture, Amnesty

  Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Immigration, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 20, 2014.

• America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Nursing, America

  "Obama's Remarks to the American Nurses Association". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 16, 2010.

• The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Gay, Law

  Barack Obama's speech on the Supreme Court Ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2013.

• All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Heart, People

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.438, Broadway Books

• Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Arena, Should

  Barack Obama's remarks at University of Michigan Spring Commencement, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 1, 2010.

• I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Children, Heart

• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

• Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Children, Memories

  "Children and adults gunned down in Connecticut school massacre". news.blogs.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

• So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Growing Up, Fun

  Source: www.slate.com

• The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Heart, Pay The Price

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

• I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Heart, Gay

• That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Land, Cities

  Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 21, 2013.

• Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Hard Work, Heart

  Remarks by President Obama and Mrs. Obama in Town Hall with Youth of Northern Ireland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 17, 2013.

• To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

  Barack Obama

  Memorial Day, Memories, Hero

• My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Heart, Empathy

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

• Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Heart, Voice

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

• People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Powerful, Heart

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

• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Mother, Teenage

  "Empathy and the Supreme Court" by Jonah Goldberg, articles.latimes.com. April 13, 2010.

• This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, Lying

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

• My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Heart, Littles

• The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Opportunity, Charity

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Eight, Iran

  Statement by the President on Iran, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 17, 2016.

• I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Attitude

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

• For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Eight

  Barack Obama, Michelle Obama (2017). “Farewell Speeches”, p.28, Melville House

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