Barack Obama Quotes About Opinions

• For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places of worship or especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there.

  Barack Obama

  College, People, Political

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, President, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that's when democracy breaks down. That's when power is abused. That's when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That's when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power - because none of us are there to speak up and stop them.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Voice, Issues

  "Obama Michigan Graduation Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Pride, Thinking

  "Policy or Politics? Obama Learns the Hard Way He Has to Do Both" by Dan Farber, www.cbsnews.com. Policy or Politics? Obama Learns the Hard Way He Has to Do Both.

• People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

  Barack Obama

  Party, People, Diversity

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

  Barack Obama

  Teaching, Self, Issues

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.190, Canongate Books

• If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Political

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

• One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Office, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, Majority

  "2016 Press Conference with President Barack Obama". awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. November 17, 2016.

• We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while governing, where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the Republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. And there were times during my presidency where I lost the PR battle.

  Barack Obama

  Battle, Public Opinion, Campaigns

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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