Barack Obama Quotes About Winning

• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Cousin, Brother

  News Conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Freedom, Integrity

• You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Winning, Two

  "Obama wants new approach after shutdown" by Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

• Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, People, Political

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.48, Canongate Books

• The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Stills

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

• If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.patheos.com

• Together, we could open up government and invite citizens in, while connecting all of America to 21st century broadband. We could use technology to help achieve universal health care, to reach for a clean energy future, and to ensure that young Americans can compete - and win - in the global economy.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Technology, Government

• If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Election, Shows

  Barack Obama's Speech at a Rally for Senator Murray in Seattle, Washington, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 21, 2010.

• Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  "Obama: Voters 'Scared,' Not Thinking Clearly About Election", www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2010.

• I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He has won. He's going to be the next president and regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up and those - those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Reality, Thinking

  Source: time.com

• The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Important, Population

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but throughout government and throughout the private sector? And those are fights that we can win because - and this is where I do believe America has changed - the majority, not by any means 100 percent, but the majority of Americans believe in the idea of nondiscrimination.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Mean, Fighting

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

• We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, War, Winning

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 16, 2011.

• My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Winning, Political

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

• People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Winning, Iowa

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• If we win all those fights, and now let's say the income gap, and the wealth gap, and the education gap have for the most part been closed - let's say hypothetically, , first of all, America as a whole would be a lot richer.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Winning, America

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

• Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've met with some of their families. I've seen their anguish, how they ache for their sons and husbands. I gave these families my word. I made a vow that we would do everything in our power to win the release of their loved ones, and we have been tireless.

  Barack Obama

  Husband, Home, Son

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

• I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a theme in my public career it's that if ordinary people get involved then good things happen. So I want to see the Democratic Party move in that direction. And what that means is that we aren't just micro-targeting to eke out presidential victories; it means that we're showing up in places where right now we're not winning a lot.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Moving, Mean

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, "Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage."

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Trying, Hey

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Smart, Winning

  "Obama Speaks at Veterans of Foreign Wars' Convention; Tropical Storm Fay Moves Up Florida Peninsula; U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Face Suicide Bombers; Presidential Candidates Close to Naming Running Mates; Payoff in Gold for a Promising Athlete". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2008.

• I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and BFW Hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. There's some counties maybe I won, that people didn't expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Winning, Iowa

  Source: time.com

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  Barack Obama

  War, Men, Winning

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

• For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Winning, Boston, Years

  "President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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