Barack Obama Quotes About Politics

• A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

  Barack Obama

  People, Political, Ordinary

• We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

  Barack Obama

  Children, Knowing, Generations

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

• Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Destiny, Politics

  First President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, Broadcast 8 November 2008

• We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Mass Shootings

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

• You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

  Barack Obama

  Change, America, Usa

  "Obama: 'You can't change Washington from the inside'". www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

• No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Gun, America

• We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Evil, Community

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

• One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Money, Party

  "Full Transcript: : President Obama’s Sept. 30 remarks on the looming government shutdown". www.washingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

• Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Krypton, Rumor

  "US elections: Barack Obama jokes he is Superman". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 17, 2008.

• 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.

• Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, War, Taken

  "Is It ISIS or ISIL? That Depends On Who You're Asking". Interview with Arun Rath, wvik.org. September 14, 2014.

• Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Running, Daughter

• I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.

  Barack Obama

  Yesterday, Energy, Needs

• Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Science, Technology

  "CNN Newsroom" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2015.

• I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

  Barack Obama

  Cnn, Politics, Littles

  "Transcript: Obama remarks at White House Correspondents' Association dinner", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2014.

• People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, People

• The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

  Barack Obama

  Politics, Innocent, Holy

  'The Rachel Maddow Show', www.nbcnews.com. June 4, 2009.

• The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

  Barack Obama

  Energy, Politics, Economy

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

• We will not apologise for our way of life.

  Barack Obama

  Politics, Way

  Inauguration speech, news.bbc.co.uk. January 20, 2009.

• Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

  Barack Obama

  America, Politics, Climate

  Remarks by the President at Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 16, 2014.

• We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Home, Men

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

• The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it.

  Barack Obama

  America, Long, Politics

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

• In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

  Barack Obama

  Oil, Politics, Energy

• I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Order, Needs

• We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

  Barack Obama

  Children, America, Debt

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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