Barack Obama Quotes About Pain

• But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today?

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Country, Pain

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

• The pain I felt was my father's pain.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Father, Grace

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.430, Canongate Books

• I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Jobs, Pain

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

• 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

• These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Son, Thinking

  " 'Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago', Obama says" by Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

• Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Pain, Believe

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Years, Progress

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2011.

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