Barack Obama Quotes About Writing

• A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Together, Chapters

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

• We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

  Barack Obama

  Strength, Writing, America

  "Obama: Liberal critics of trade stuck in the past" by Theodore Schleifer, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2015.

• I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Stories

• We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Moving, Native American

• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

• 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

• Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

  Barack Obama

  Education, Reading, Writing

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

• That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Fear, Business

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

• Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Writing, Challenges

  Tenth President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, First Broadcast 10 January 2009, Washington, D.C.

• Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Writing, Oil

  Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 6, 2012.

• But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Writing, Destiny

  Barack Obama's back-to-school speech at Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2009.

• Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

  Barack Obama

  Book, Writing, Class

  Barack Obama's remarks in a National Address to America's Schoolchildren at the Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 8, 2009.

• America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Character, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Writing, Exercise

  "A UNIQUE MOMENT': Obama to announce first gun steps with Biden this a.m. - POTUS is TIME Person of the Year -- Sen. Portman, Joey Scarborough bday" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. December 19, 2012.

• You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, College, Needs

• 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

• Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Cutting, College

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

• When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Writing, Trying

• So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Destiny, Opportunity

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

• I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Editing, Self

• Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Want, Heard

  "Heavily pregnant Audra McDonald, 46, receives National Medal of Arts - and a warm hug - from President Obama" by Ross McDonagh, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 22, 2016.

• That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Writing, Simple

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

• What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Son, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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