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Folks Quotes by Barack Obama
- It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year,…
- In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of…
- I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of…
- What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values…
- If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those…
- There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who…
- When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
- I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks,…
- There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So…
- It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a…
- Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.
- There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president.
- Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then…
- When Americans are called on to innovate, that's what we do - whether it's making more fuel-efficient cars or more fuel-efficient appliances, or making sure…
- My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she…
- Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
- We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
- I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
- Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going…
- That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then…
- Now, that's not my analysis. That's the analysis of economists who have looked at this. And, and that kind of top, top-down economics, where folks…
More Folks Quotes
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I… — Dan Aykroyd
- My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be… — Joan Baez
- Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
- The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's… — Jeff Bezos
- Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying… — Joe Biden
- Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed… — Joe Biden
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno
- I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the… — Josh Billings
- I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that… — Lewis Black
- In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from… — Lewis Black