The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I will put… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[About his marijuana use] I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but… — 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 think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power… — 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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