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  • I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , War Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Compassion Quotes , Europe Quotes
  • I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Believe Quotes , Ambition Quotes
  • As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Couple Quotes , Teenager Quotes
  • There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes
  • I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Gay Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I'm not sure that the American people are looking for a lot of speeches. I think what they're looking for is action. But one of the things that I do think is important is to be able to explain to the American people what you're doing, and why you're doing it. That is something that I think every great president has been able to do. From FDR to Lincoln to John Kennedy to Eisenhower.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , People Quotes
  • I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Russia Quotes , Government Quotes
  • When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Moving Quotes