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Political Quotes by Barack Obama

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Obama talks about spending money on education instead of cutting core investments, saying that strong schools help the country grow. He warns that a single party faction can’t shut down the whole government just to change an election result. He also stresses that building a moral and political consensus moves the nation forward.

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You can't change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside.

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I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

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If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

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I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

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Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line.

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We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

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Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

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My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have…

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We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

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

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These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the…

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With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push…

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Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much…

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I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I…

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Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's…

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Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society…

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Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest…

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If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our…

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In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain…

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The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for…

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With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need…

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I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and…

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The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the…

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When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going…

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I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

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When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes…

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There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its…

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That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That…

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Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the…

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A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

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The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation

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[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.

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In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil…

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is…

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My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

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One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire…

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Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the…

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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

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Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

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

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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…