Barack Obama Quotes - Page 26

• 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.

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  Inspirational, Cousin, Brother

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

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• It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

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  Jobs, Children, Kindness

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

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  Fixing, Generations, Climate Change

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.

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  Dream, Powerful, Simple

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

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

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  Powerful, Recovery, Common Humanity

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Technology, Invisible Hand

  "The Day the Momentum Changed: And What Obama Needs to Do in the Debates to Keep It" by Drew Westen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2008.

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• If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

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  Inspiring, Believe, School

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

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• The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

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  Inspiring, Wall, Danger

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

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  America, Bluster, Resolve

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

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• I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

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  People, Politics, Innocent

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• Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited.

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  Opportunity, Nuclear Iran, Peaceful

  "Barack Obama speaks to to the UN general assembly - US politics live" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

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  Numbers, Embodiment, Pages

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• The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

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  Powerful, Share, Force

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

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• Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

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  Nsa, Protection, Congress

  "Obama’s Statement On Dodd And Filibuster", shadowproof.com. December 17, 2007.

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• I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

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  War, Nsa, Damage

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• The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

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  Energy, Politics, Economy

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

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  Country, Long, Politics

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

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  Thinking, Government, Problem

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• If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.

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  Believe, Earth, Columbus

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• No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

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  War, Mean, Middle East

  Barack Obama's statement on Iran at the White House State Floor in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 14, 2015.

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• If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.

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  Change, Country, Political

  Remarks by the President to the City Club of Cleveland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 18, 2015.

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• We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.

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  Together, Politics, Futures Together

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

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  Leadership, Jobs, Air

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• Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.

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  Strong, People, Giving

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 09, 2015.

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• It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

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  Our Generation, Class, America

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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