When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a… — 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
I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture… — 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
You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we were working on immigration reform and there was a young Latino man, young immigration activist here who, in the Roosevelt… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I think about what I'm going through, as President, it doesn't compare to what the folks that I'm representing are going… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader… — 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
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes… — 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 Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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