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Principles Quotes by Barack Obama
- If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And…
- We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin,…
- Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
- 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…
- I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income…
- The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to…
- [P]art of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we…
- This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, 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…
- Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and…
- Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect…
- For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling…
- America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and…
- I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our…
- And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that…
- We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes…
- Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument…
- [A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
More Principles Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
- The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
- I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have… — Drew Barrymore
- 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
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams