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101 Men quotes by Barack Obama

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A soldier in uniform appears in Obama’s remarks about men helping end wars and protect communities. He also talks about men taking more responsibility, closing early opportunity gaps, and learning from personal mistakes like a youthful experiment with marijuana. The quotes tie men’s actions to larger ideas of unity and guidance.

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Every major world religion has identified marriage as between a man and a woman.

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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect…

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Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

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I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

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Men have to take more responsibility. Men have to intervene

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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

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If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women

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It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

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One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word "mulligan," which means…

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As a product of history and faith, Jewish Americans have helped to open our eyes to injustice, to people in need, and…

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[About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but…

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I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world…

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I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth.…

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We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man…

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Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and…

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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you…

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We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are…

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As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by…

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Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a…

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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by…

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Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All…

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When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or…

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All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether…

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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we…

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Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of…

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We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the…

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Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,…

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I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s…

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I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the…

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In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has…

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I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the…

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The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit…

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A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice

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We Shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women

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Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

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All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.

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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

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This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure…

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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself,…

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Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.…

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we…

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us…