Barack Obama Quotes, Hype Quotes, People Quotes

I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for."

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Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.

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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

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I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

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Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.

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No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

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For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

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If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down.

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Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

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We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

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What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

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We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

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Its important for people to know that I will make many promises to get their votes.

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