Barack Obama Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Vanity Quotes

I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?

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Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.

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Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

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If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

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I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement.

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Why can't I just eat my waffle?

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We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

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Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.

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I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

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I do think Brexit vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation.

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Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

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The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

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We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.

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The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.

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We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.

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We can get this done! Take a vote, and send me that bill.

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I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.

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