Barack Obama Quotes

He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

Barack Obama

• Country
• Power
• Running
• Phones

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Country
  • Million
  • Per

• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Country
  • Journey

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Country
  • Think
  • Security

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Houston's one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Country
  • Proud

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Power
  • Black

• I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Power
  • Economy
  • Will

• I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Power
  • American
  • Dictator

• Each system has a specific structure made up of certain maintained relationships among its parts, and manifests irreducible characteristics of its own.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Relationships
  • Structure
  • Characteristics

• Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Favorite
  • Ever
  • Michael

• When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Excellence

• He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Power
  • Running