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Action Quotes by Barack Obama
- For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act…
- I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to…
- It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the…
- Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of…
- We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren't getting more…
- ...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me…
- We've taken bold action at home by making historic investments in renewable energy, by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and…
- For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that…
- We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
- They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have…
- There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.
- Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody…
- The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
- So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried…
- It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in…
- I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.…
- But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
- Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the…
- America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will…
- Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against the…
- Let's make this a year of action.
- The disagreement I have with Gov. Romney is that...he has often talked as if we should take premature military action.
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle