Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Media Quotes

I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.

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Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

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I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

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We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

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I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

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We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be.

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The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.

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You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

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We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year

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I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.

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Constitution is a living document; no strict constructionism.

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Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

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What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

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

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I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

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This comes from a group of people who`ve been wrong about every foreign policy issue over the last two decades. They supported Hillary Clinton`s war in Libya. They supported President [Barack] Obama`s bombing of Assad.

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There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

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I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

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Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

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