Barack Obama Quotes
I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
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The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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I believe that God wants us to show respect.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.
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How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
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I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
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I watched artists who blew up before me become parodies of themselves. I wasn't listening to people when they told me that I had nothing to say, and I can't listen to people now when they tell me I'm the bomb, even though I want to.
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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
