Barack Obama Quotes

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

Barack Obama

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Different
  • America
  • Best

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • America
  • Energy

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Find

• If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • America
  • Reading
  • Gun

• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• The business of America is business.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Business
  • America

• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Heart
  • America
  • Black

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• To me, America is just another market.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • America
  • Me
  • Market

• People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Good
  • America

• There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Political
  • Decisions

• I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather! What is the odds so long as the spirit is expanded by means of rosy wine, and the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Long
  • Soul
  • Present

• In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Hope
  • Victory
  • Canvas

• For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Concept
  • Connect
  • Acute Man

• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Trust

• America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Responsibility