Top 25 Quotes by Barack Obama of 3124 - Page 41

What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly

What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.

Barack Obama

New York, Emotional, Thinking

"Obama Challenges GOP Lawmakers In Budget Debate". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. June 29, 2011.

I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.

Barack Obama

Thinking, Long, Balance

Interview with John Harwood, www.cnbc.com. June 10, 2008.

None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

Barack Obama

Patriotic, Government, Self

"Partisan-in-chief Obama – crossing the line with America's federal workforce" By Tony Shaffer, www.foxnews.com. October 03, 2013.

My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!

Barack Obama

Father, Struggle, Hard Work

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.220, Broadway Books

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

Barack Obama

Ideas, Firm, Ideology

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.17, Canongate Books

But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.

Barack Obama

Maps, Want, Election

"Obama's Remarks in Espanola, New Mexico". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 18, 2008.

We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.

Barack Obama

Strong, Agreement, Years

Barack Obama's remarks at G20 Press Conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center in Brisbane, Australia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 16, 2014.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

Barack Obama

Simple, Self, Blood

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

The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.

Barack Obama

Moving, Rights, Doors

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

To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America. That is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists because living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger.

Barack Obama

Powerful, America, Justice

First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that's not serving Democrats, that's not serving Republicans, that's not serving anybody.

Barack Obama

People, Tears, Trying

It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

Barack Obama

Cutting, Common Sense, Innovation

First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.

Barack Obama

Wall, Fall, Together

"President Obama Pitches Financial Reform". "NBC Nightly News" with Brian Williams, archives.nbclearn.com. April 22, 2010.

Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.

Barack Obama

Powerful, Tears, Together

Remarks at the Department of State, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 19, 2011.

Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

Barack Obama

Heart, Democracies Have, Democracy

Remarks by the President in a Town Hall Meeting in Decorah, Iowa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 15, 2011.

Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country.

Barack Obama

Country, Fall, Agency

"Op-Ed: Where's President Obama's Narrative?". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. August 8, 2011.

Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all.

Barack Obama

Together, Looks, Littles

"Keeping Hope Alive". The Oprah Winfrey Show, October 18, 2006.

A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

Barack Obama

Funny, Nba, Names

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

Barack Obama

Thinking, Nsa, Important

The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

Barack Obama

Phones, Government, Nsa

I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.

Barack Obama

Lying, Greatness, America

Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.

Barack Obama

Office, President, Titles

Arizona State Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Barack Obama

Amnesty, Stranger, Undocumented Workers

President Barack Obama's remarks in Address to the Nation on Libya at National Defense University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

Barack Obama

Garden, People, Rose

Remarks by the President and Governor Romney in Second Presidential Debate, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 17, 2012.

It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

Barack Obama

Moving, Past, Battle

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

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