Barack Obama Quotes About Making Mistakes

• So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  "Obama: 'A Christian by Choice'" by Kristin Brown, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2010.

• And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Dad, Mistake

  "Obama talks of fatherhood". "Obama talks of fatherhood" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. June 18, 2011.

• My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Trying, Good Intentions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Moving, Order

  "President Barack Obama Holds Press Conference", pl.usembassy.gov. November 15, 2016.

• I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Believe, North Korea

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. But if you look at the track record America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important task.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Mistake, Perfect

  "Obama tells Al Arabiya peace talks should resume". Interview with Hisham Melhem, www.alarabiya.net. January 27, 2009.

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