Barack Obama Quotes, People Quotes

To young people: you have to stay encouraged.

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If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

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The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

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This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.

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What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

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That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.

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Corporations aren’t people. People are people.

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The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

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If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

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ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion.

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Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

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Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.

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We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

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We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.

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As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.

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I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

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Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

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I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.

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