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.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Money
  • Job
  • Competition

• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
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  • Country
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Country
  • Think
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• 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.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• 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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Important
  • Country
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • You
  • Community

• I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

  

  Vin Diesel
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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.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Country
  • Real
  • Sometimes

• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Money
  • Age
  • Fashion

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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  • Years
  • Stones

• 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.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Tough

• I spend my money like I don't have anything.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Like
  • Spend

• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Social

• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Like

• The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

  

  Elliott Abrams
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  • Wall

• My heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad.

  

  George McGovern
  • Country
  • Heart

• Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

  

  William Blake
  • Men
  • Forgot
  • Human Breast

• Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

  

  Plutarch
  • Gold
  • River
  • Plato

• Too often we forget that when a soldier gives the ultimate sacrifice, there's a family back home who is suffering, ... This memorial should mean a lot not only for the veterans but also those they left behind. This is a great symbol of community pride.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Sacrifice
  • Soldier
  • Ultimate

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Money
  • Health