I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
On the one hand information is moving quick or the way in which people consume information is changing so fast. Clearly this… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot… — 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
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy. And what I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have to ensure free and open exchange of information. That starts with an open internet. I will take a backseat to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age,… — 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
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share
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
All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.… — Barack Obama Copy Share
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share
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
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share
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
It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share
Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share
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