Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The government can't solve every problem, but an enlightened government can make sure that people can work hard for their dreams and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He's been assuming a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will… — Barack Obama Copy Share
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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… — Barack Obama Copy Share
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share
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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. — Barack Obama Copy Share
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![“I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9c9/barack-obama-17_bits_i-say-that-is-because-those-are-the-time_2451942.jpg)
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