Barack Obama Quotes

Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

Barack Obama

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• America
• Islamic
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• If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • America
  • Tomorrow
  • Stand

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Saying

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Understanding
  • Decision
  • Fight

• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • America
  • Law
  • Mistake

• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Men
  • America
  • Rest

• We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • America
  • Old

• In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • America
  • Amazing
  • Farm

• Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • American
  • America

• 'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • America
  • You
  • Play

• There are other kinds of emotional pain that emerge from our own mistaken thinking. As we surrender that pain, we are inviting into our thought system a guide who will lead us to different thoughts. It's like the song "Amazing Grace": I was blind and now I see.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Song

• She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Mother

• Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Choose

• I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Believe

• Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Islamic