Barack Obama Quotes
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
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To say more, is to say less.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
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It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
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If a new president personalizes a rather different concept of America and a different sense of America's mission in the world than has been the case with president George W. Bush, then that almost automatically will help to improve America's global image. But the tangibles involving the war and the economy are not going to be easy to fix.
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Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.
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I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.
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Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
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My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
