Barack Obama Quotes About Tradition

• My Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Believe, Important

  Barack Obama's speech on H.R. 1540, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 31, 2011.

• As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Pride, Men

• Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

  Barack Obama

  Tolerance, Islam, Proud

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

• another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

  Barack Obama

  Meaningful, Country, Believe

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.2, Canongate Books

• I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

  Barack Obama

  Gun, Rights, Law

  "Washington Navy Yard Massacre — The Aftermath" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

• The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Republican, Tradition

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  Barack Obama

  People, Borders, Tradition

  "Former NATO Commander Reacts To Obama's Foreign Policy Speech". www.npr.org. May 28, 2014.

• In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Long, Tradition

• I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith...So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Believe, Path

  "Obama's Faith...In His Own Words". Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www1.cbn.com. November 12, 2008.

• We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, America, Long

  "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2009.

• I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

  Barack Obama

  People, Tough, Terrorism

  "Obama on ending wars, terror trials and more". Interview with Chuck Todd, www.today.com. November 18, 2009.

• I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.

  Barack Obama

  People, Safe, Constitution

  "Lauer to Obama: Are You Worried about a Gitmo 'Willie Horton?'" by Geoffrey Dickens, www.newsbusters.org. February 2, 2009.

• I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

  Barack Obama

  America, Tradition, Possibility

  "Obama's Symbolic Importance". voices.washingtonpost.com. July 30, 2008.

• I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

• We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

  Barack Obama

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Gun

  Source: www.politico.com

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