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Decision Quotes by Barack Obama

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A school shooting can highlight how easy weapons fall into the wrong hands, prompting tough choices. The quotes discuss setting up processes for information, making decisions based on safety strategies, and noting that regret over past choices is rare. They show the weight of leadership in critical moments.

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There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at…

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You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

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I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible.

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Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health.

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Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out…

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There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we…

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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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The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that…

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The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the…

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Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end…

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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization…

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At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up…

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[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of…

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When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are…

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As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is…

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Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to…

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In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our…

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This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a…

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I think that there is a particular mindset that was on display in the run-up to the Iraq war that continues to…

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I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated…

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No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is…

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One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted…

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When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major…

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I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

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Today’s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure.

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For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics,…

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What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe…

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I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions…

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What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious; it was emotional;…

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You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process…

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Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that…

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There are times where I'd say the Oval Office, you use to gather the facts. The decisions you probably make late at…

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Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got…

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What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand…

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I think that [having not a lot of time sweating the details] can be both a strength and a weakness. I think…

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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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When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are…

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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process…

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When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of…

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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…

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…