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Election Quotes by Barack Obama
- If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests;…
- Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.
- I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.
- "Undecided," while running for re-election to state Senate in 1998, in response to an Outlines questionnaire asking, "Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage?"
- This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.
- For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only…
- My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the…
- But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t…
- We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real…
- America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to…
- You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change…
- In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
- If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.
- For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at…
- I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.
- If you've got a business - you didn't build that.
- Please proceed, Governor.
- Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
- We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.
- I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We are greater than the sum of…
- He election four years ago wasnt about me. It was about you. My fellow citizens...you were the change.
- Well, for 18 months he's been running on this tax plan. And now, five weeks before the election, he's saying that his big, bold idea…
More Election Quotes
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. — Michelle Bachelet
- If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election! — Michele Bachmann
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton
- It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his… — Russell Baker
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. — Franklin P. Adams
- The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really… — Roseanne Barr
- The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and… — Roseanne Barr
- I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to… — Roseanne Barr
- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. — John Quincy Adams
- Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams