Barack Obama Quotes
We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
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At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
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I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.
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I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.
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I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
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We're just not the type of artists that take anything for granted and just feel like, 'Oh yeah, you just know something great is going to happen.' We're not like that.
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We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.
