Barack Obama Quotes

I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

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• I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.

  

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• Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.

  

  Zachary Quinto
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• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

  Yves Behar
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• Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
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• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
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• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
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• You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.

  

  Salman Khurshid
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• I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

  

  Maggie Grace
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• I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.

  

  Eddie Cahill
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• When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

  

  Fatos Nano
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• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

  

  Larry MacPhail
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• I work hard and support myself.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
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• We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the messages that exist in our fear-based society, and we get beaten down. Being confident means peeling away the doubt, fear, and worry and getting back to our core. Confident people have learned how to get back to their pure selves.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People
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• Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

  

  Feist
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• Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

  

  James Cash Penney
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• I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

  

  Margaret O'Brien

• I used to be smart.

  

  Chris Gronkowski
  • Smart

• I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Support
  • Christian