Barack Obama Quotes - Page 33

• The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.

  Barack Obama

  Thank You, World, Thanks

  Memorial Address for Nelson Mandela, delivered 10 December 2013, First National Bank Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, Climate, Generations

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

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• Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

  Barack Obama

  War, Weapons, Streets

  Barack Obama's Speech on Preventing Gun Violence in Minneapolis, MN, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 4, 2013.

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• For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here for the same reason that families have always come here-for the hope that in America, they could build a better life for themselves and their families. Like the waves of immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will only enrich our country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, America, Immigration

  Barack Obama's Remarks to NALEO, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2008.

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• Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

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  Purpose, Poverty, Aids

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2009.

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• Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

  Barack Obama

  Justice, Effort, Sometimes

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

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  Country, Horse, Home

  Barack Obama's Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 5, 2015.

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• I'm convinced we're going to rebuild not only the auto industry, but the economy better and stronger than before. And at its heart is going to be three powerful words: Made in America. Made in America.

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  Powerful, Heart, Stronger

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that's been taking place around the world. Groups like ISIL can't destroy us. They can't defeat us. They don't produce anything. They're not an existential threat to us. It is very important for us to not respond with fear.

  Barack Obama

  Priorities, Important, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.

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  Mean, Impact, Climate

  "U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods". Interview with Al Roker, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 2014.

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• Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

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  Country, People, Decision

  "Supreme Court Upholds Health Reform Law". www.webmd.com. June 28, 2012.

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• The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents - number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome - so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back. [That's] $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.

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  Children, Men, Numbers

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• Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation –- one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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  Dream, Country, Jobs

  "Obama may have won now, but next three years could be tough" by Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2013.

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• I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

  Barack Obama

  Giving, Long, Speech

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

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  Mistake, Reflection, Citizens

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.

  Barack Obama

  Obamacare, Dollars, Cost

  "President Barack Obama Holds a News Conference". ye.usembassy.gov. November 14, 2016.

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• I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, "Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt."

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  Hurt, Kids, Looks

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

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  Men, Uniforms, He Man

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

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  School, Kids, College

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2008.

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• If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.

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  Opportunity, Suffering, Growth

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• Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Krypton, Rumor

  "US elections: Barack Obama jokes he is Superman". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 17, 2008.

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• If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

  Barack Obama

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

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• Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

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  Generations, Fuel, Fossils

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

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• In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

  Barack Obama

  People, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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