Barack Obama Quotes - Page 115

• In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed.

  Barack Obama

  School, College, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity.

  Barack Obama

  Zero, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve.

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  Lying, Sacrifice, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.

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  Law, Obligation, Following

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not getting the minimum wage. And so a lot of times companies prefer to hire them in order to take advantage of them. We've got to crack down on those employers.

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  Order, Law, Safety

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.

  Barack Obama

  Race, America, Progress

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Done, Preference

  "Obama Warns Trump Against Relying On Executive Power". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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• What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants.

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  Democracy, Pakistan, Aids

  Source: www.today.com

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• On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.

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  Country, Grief, Hands

  Source: www.today.com

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• I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Troops, Burden

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Thinking, Chiefs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The two inaugurations were different. The first inauguration I was thinking to myself, "Let's make sure I don't screw this up." I think there is - people always talk about how cool I am. I don't care how cool you are.

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  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, "What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference."

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  Mom, Country, Son

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Thinking, Unique

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be president.

  Barack Obama

  President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Here`s a guy who says he`s a great businessman. But it seems like a lot of Trump's business is built around stiffing small businesses and workers out of what he owes them, work they`ve done. He thinks that`s cute or smart or funny to basically not pay somebody who`s done work for him and say go ahead and sue me because I`ve got more money than you and you can`t do anything about it.

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past - none of these things have been helpful.

  Barack Obama

  Past, People, Support

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead. You can get ahead. Doesn't matter what you look like, doesn't matter where you come from. Our middle class, when it's growing, when it's thriving, when there are ladders of opportunity for people to do a little bit better each year and then make sure that their kids are doing even better than them, that's the American dream. That's what we got to fight for. That has to be the north star that guides everything we do.

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  Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Every major world religion has identified marriage as between a man and a woman.

  Barack Obama

  Men, World Religions, Gay Couples

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Women's Health

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, People, Giving

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, People, Evil

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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