Barack Obama Quotes About Wife

• It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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

• Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of "You know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife... wow!"

  Barack Obama

  Strong Women, Smart, Thinking

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

• Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Gay, Fighting

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

  Barack Obama

  Wife, Politics, Littles

  "'Run Obama! Run!' Could this be the next US president?" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.

• People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Issues, People

• Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Team, White

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Perfect, Wife

  Speech in Mitchell, South Dakota, June 1, 2008.

• I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Wife, People

  Source: www.oprah.com

• That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.

  Barack Obama

  Silly, Wife, Needs

  "Barack the Blessed" by Jim Geraghty, National Review, July 27, 2004.

• My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Marriage, Husband

• I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second.

  Barack Obama

  Baby, Airplane, Fighting

  "Obama: ‘I Don’t Believe in Coming in Second’" by Jeff Zeleny, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. September 6, 2008.

• What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Stupid

• He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

  Barack Obama

  Drinking, Wife, Faults

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I don't know the facts of when Joe Soptic's wife got sick or when she died.

  Barack Obama

  Sick, Wife, Facts

• Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Home, Years

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

• Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Home, Writing

• I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Home, Sick

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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