Barack Obama Quotes, Community Quotes, Support Quotes

I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.

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I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.

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I'm a Christian by choice.

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If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

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When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess - we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop - let's get to work.

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What I said to Donald Trump was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country and gaining the trust even of those who didn't support him.

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The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.

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I think it's about time! Who cares whether he is looking for votes or not! At least your country is moving forward with the times!

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My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

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We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.

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We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

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The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

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I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world.

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America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both.

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Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat - from Gaza to Tehran.

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Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

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Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

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We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.

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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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Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.

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