Barack Obama/Quotes
Quotes by Barack Obama
"I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
—"The Candidate" in The New Yorker (31 May 2004)
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"[...] [W]e've been divided for so long, we've been arguing for so long, a lot of times about things that aren't even worth arguing about, and ignoring the things that we should be doing to make the next generation have a better life — that I think people are hungry for a new politics, they're hungry for change, and that's why I decided to run for President of the United States.
—Speech in Keehi Lagoon Beach Park, Hawaii (8 August 2008)
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"In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long."
—Election victory speech in Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois (4 November 2008)
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"I understand why war is not popular, but I also know this: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That's why NATO continues to be indispensable. That's why we must strengthen U.N. and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries."
—Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway (9 December 2009)
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"My experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions."
—I would have fired BP chief by now, Obama says (msnbc.com, June 8, 2010)
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"First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination."
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"As one former prisoner put it in speaking to his fellow citizens, 'Politics is your job. It’s not only for [the] politicians.' And we have an expression in the United States that the most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen -- not President, not Speaker, but citizen."
—Remarks by President Obama at the University of Yangon, Rangoon, Burma (19 November 2012)
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Quotes about Barack Obama
As a Canadian, I did not believe in my lifetime I would see a man like Barack Obama become president of the United States. And not because he's black, but because he ran a positive campaign and actually got elected.
—Rick Mercer, Rick Mercer Report, January 20, 2009
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