Barack Obama Quotes About Running

• We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Children, Honor

  "Obama Speaks at Selma's "Bloody Sunday" 50th Anniversary" by Natalie Stone, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2015.

• I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Campaigns, Knows

  Barack Obama's Remarks in State of the Union Address, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 20, 2015.

• It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

  Barack Obama

  Running, Years, White

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.293, Canongate Books

• The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Memories, Reality

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.437, Broadway Books

• Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Life Changing, Growth

• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mother, Children

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

• The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Dream, Hard Work

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Running, Country

• We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Law, Enforcement

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• 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

• "Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"

  Barack Obama

  Running, Sex, Gay

• Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Political, Matter

  "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. July 11, 2011.

• If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

• Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Morning, Taken

  Barack Obama's Speech at Boston Marathon prayer service, www.politico.com. April 18, 2013.

• We will finish the race.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Race

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2013

• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Real, Men

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

• If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen because this will affect you. The idea, which was originally presented by Congressman Ryan, your running mate, is that we would give a voucher to seniors and they could go out in the private marketplace and buy their own health insurance.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Running, Ideas

• I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Zero

• Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Jobs, Government

• Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Running, Children

• This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

• Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."Truth: Obama later said, "This was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech and we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given. The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Israel, Wire

• Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the risk of selling out our democracy to the highest bidder. And it leaves everyone else rightly suspicious that the system in Washington is rigged against them - that our elected representatives aren't looking out for the interests of most Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Voice, Giving

  "Obama Meets Occupy Wall Street" by Siddhartha Mahanta, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2011.

• I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Team

  Obama's Remarks on Health Care and Surveillance, www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2013.

• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Country

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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