Barack Obama Quotes

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Barack Obama

Profession : President

Birth : August 4, 1961

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

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We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

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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.

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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

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Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

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This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

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I'm a warrior for the middle class.

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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

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