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Reality has a way of asserting itself.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

Barack Obama
Reality, Way
"Press Conference by the President". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 14, 2016.

The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

Barack Obama
Moving, America, Development

We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and trying to figure out whether the world's going to fly apart, and Michelle is trying to figure out where the girls are going to go to school. And we pack up and leave and basically our house in Chicago just became like a time capsule. My desk in my home office still had stacks of articles and bills and stuff from 2008.

Barack Obama
Girl, Home, School
Source: www.theatlantic.com

As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil – not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

Barack Obama
Real, Commitment, Oil

I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.

Barack Obama
Yesterday, Energy, Needs

My goal is to maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons. I want that enforcement to be real. I want it to be serious. I want people to understand that gassing innocent people, delivering chemical weapons against children is not something we do. It's prohibited in active wars between countries. We certainly don't do it against kids. And we've got to stand up for that principle.

Barack Obama
Country, Children, Real
Source: www.politico.com

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

Barack Obama
Feelings, Climate, Global Warming
Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

Barack Obama
Military, Hook, Action
Source: www.politico.com

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

Barack Obama
Christian, Mind Blowing, Islam
The President's News Conference With President Abdullah Gul of Turkey in Ankara, Turkey, April 6, 2009.

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

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

Barack Obama
Challenges, Environmental, Kind

Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.

Barack Obama
United States, Partners, Angela
Source: www.spiegel.de

Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

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

I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.

Barack Obama
Kings, Believe, Climate
Source: www.foxnews.com

[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance.

Barack Obama
Mean, Upset, Transition

China is both an adversary, but also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules. So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else.

Barack Obama
Attitude, Play, Office
Source: genius.com

I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.

Barack Obama
People, Want, Information

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

Barack Obama
Kings, Stars, Fall
Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive.

Barack Obama
America, Exclusive
Source: time.com

I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.

Barack Obama
Country, Teacher, School

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

Barack Obama
People, Debate, American History
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

Barack Obama
Names, Generations, Calling
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.

Barack Obama
America, Diversity, Messengers
Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

Barack Obama
Fate, Our World, Justice
Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

Barack Obama
Money, People, Trends