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Raise 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…
- We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
- What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that…
- I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white…
- Now, today, some children are enrolled in excellent programs. Some children are enrolled in mediocre programs. And some are wasting away their most formative years…
- We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the…
- Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
- Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
- 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…
- The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race 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…
- I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her…
- I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we…
- 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…
- The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more…
- What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of…
- While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns,…
- The basic American promise that if you work hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to…
- Now, we all know that we've got to do more. And so I've put forward a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. It's on a…
- What makes you a man isnt the ability to conceive a child; its having the courage to raise one.
More Raise Quotes
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila
- I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income… — Ellen Barkin
- I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't… — Ellen Barkin
- I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids. — Charles Barkley
- Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility… — Evan Bayh
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison
- Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children… — Martha Beck
- Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- 'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to… — Joe Biden
- I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel
- If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise… — Emily Blunt
- Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. — John Boehner