Barack Obama Quotes

As quoted in 'U.S. to clarify Iran rules, but Tehran must reassure wary firms' (April 2016)

Barack Obama

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• The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tax
  • April
  • Accounting

• Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Daily
  • Media
  • April

• We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Way
  • Television
  • April

• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Paris
  • Holiday
  • Trees

• On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Green

• We're going to move a lot of crude (oil) in this country, and we have to learn how to do it very safely. 'Buffett: Moving Oil By Rail Safely Is A Major Industry Concern' Investing.com (24 April 2014)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Country
  • Moving
  • April

• 'Thanks be to God,' says the Admiral; 'the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.'

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • God
  • Air
  • Thanks

• 'Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess.' James Hetfield - Playboy April 2001.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • April

• Panama: '...a deadly spot the end of the world almost....There are 20,000 British coloured people working on the canal...; they are mostly from Jamaica & smell too revolting for words....the Panamanians are a very queer people, all dagoes of course, though very pompous and dirty' (31 March - 1 April 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Different
  • Long
  • Player

• Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • April

• I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

  

  Phil Gramm
  • Believe
  • American

• I find myself on Yelp typing in 'the best 'blank'' all the time: best cheese, best ice cream, best pizza.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Time
  • Pizza

• Philips is committed to the circular economy and is applying its principles throughout the organization. We are redesigning our products and looking at ways to capture their residual value.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Value
  • Organization

• In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • School
  • High
  • April

• My mom was a problem solver.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Mom

• I know April, May and June are a few unbearable months, and working out in a gym and sweating in such dirty hot, sticky, humid weather puts me off. The best way is to swim. I feel so fresh and rejuvenated after swimming, and I believe it's one of the best mode to fitness during summers.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Believe
  • May
  • Gym

• It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.

  

  Max Heindel
  • Life
  • Home
  • Giving

• The roofs are shining from the rain, The sparrows twitter as they fly, And with a windy April grace The little clouds go by. Yet the back yards are bare and brown With only one unchanging tree- I could not be so sure of Spring Save that it sings in me.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Spring
  • Rain
  • Grace

• The best learning I had came from teaching.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Drive
  • Faster
  • Especially

• All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • Wish

• 'Cause when you got love, like we got love.I'm holding on to heaven, holding onto you.When you got one, like I got one.Anyway you looking, it's a hell of a view.Don't know where we're gonna be, but I know we're be sitting on top of the world.So keep hanging onto me.Yeah, don't you wanna be sitting on top of the world?Top of the world.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • World
  • Heaven

• As quoted in 'U.S. to clarify Iran rules, but Tehran must reassure wary firms' (April 2016)

  

  Barack Obama
  • April