Quotes by Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

American politician

Lived from: 1961 -

Category: Politics Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 4 august 1961

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  • Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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  • Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
    V.N. 23 sept 2009
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  • Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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  • Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
    Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
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  • For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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  • Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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  • Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
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  • I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
    Speech (1 June 2008)
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  • I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
    At a NATO summit in Strasbourg on April 4 2009
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  • I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
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  • I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2009, Book 1, Government Printing Office, 2011 p. 761
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  • I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
    Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
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  • I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
    in 2004
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  • I don’t know anybody who is pro-abortion.
    Speech Benedectine University, oktober 2004
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  • I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2009, Book 1
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  • I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
    President Obama Misses Anonymity, People-Watching - ABC News website, 11 April 2011
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  • I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
    in April 2010
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  • I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
    Interview ABC News, 09-05-2012
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  • I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody
    12-10-2008
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  • I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
    Interview to Arab TV network al-Arabiyya, 26 January 2009
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