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Full Quotes by Barack Obama
- With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of…
- We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
- While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave…
- On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront…
- We must build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination. ... policies must be developed, attitudes must be shaped, and buildings and organizations…
- I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit…
- There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at…
- I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
- I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong…
- To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and…
- [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this…
- We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice…
- I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by…
- We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to…
- That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy…
- If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it.
- In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.
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- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine
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