Barack Obama Quotes About Irony

• The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

• I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Men, Self

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.86, Canongate Books

• I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Light, Government

  "Strategy Memo: Late Night in the House". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 17, 2009.

• I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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