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Politics Quotes by Barack Obama

249 Politics quotes by Barack Obama

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Obama’s quotes speak of a future where children aren’t weighed down by debt or inequality and stress that Americans can unite despite political splits. He stresses grassroots politics, the need to protect education and other core investments, and how targeted sanctions can bring adversaries to the negotiating table.

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Three months is a lifetime in politics.

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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

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Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

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I've been to 57 states.

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We will not apologise for our way of life.

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

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[This upset] means that means Donald Trump now has to transition to governance.

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Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

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

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We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

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As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

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I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics.

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Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

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Millions of Americans who work hard & play by the rules every day deserve a government and a financial system that does…

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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed…

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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're…

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Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for…

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We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

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“And it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their…

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One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.

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Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

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Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that…

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We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a…

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I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about…

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I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the…

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We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's…

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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they…

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As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging…

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The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It…

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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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Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what…

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We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us,…

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“The stakes involved in Washington policy debates are often so high-- whether we send our young men and women to war; whether…

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We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be…

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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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For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can…

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I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

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We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

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Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics.

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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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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…