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Generations Quotes by Barack Obama

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Climate change looms as a huge threat to future generations. The speaker says that the next generation is inspired, diverse, and ready to work together for change. He also reminds us that caring for each other and planning long‑term are how we can leave a good world.

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This generations success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other & to their countrys future.

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It is our generation's task...to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth...a rising, thriving middle class.

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There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw…

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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future…

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No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

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I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

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That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness…

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As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit…

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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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“Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to…

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Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we…

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Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once…

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We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on…

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What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next…

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We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next…

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Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in…

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Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we…

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It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives,…

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The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not.…

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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me…

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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced. It's one thing for me…

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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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It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be…

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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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[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority…

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To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

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To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

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Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

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[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future…

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I want future generations to know that we are a people that see our differences as a great gift.

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It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

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We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.

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“Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights…

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You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change…

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And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how…

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The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and…

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It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our…

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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens.…

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I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now…

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