Barack Obama Quotes
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.Barack Obama
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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.
J. Cole -
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.
J. Cole -
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
Viggo Mortensen -
I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
Harold Hamm -
As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
Carles Puigdemont -
President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
F. W. de Klerk
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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.
Zhang Yin -
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
Kate Christensen -
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
Barack Obama -
I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
Xavier Becerra -
Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
Carly Fiorina
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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.
Kate Winslet -
To say more, is to say less.
Harlan Ellison -
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle -
The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
F. W. de Klerk -
'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.
Natasha Trethewey -
It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
Warren Christopher
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
B. B. King -
Last night I had a peace dream.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
Hitherto the conception of chemical transmission at nerve endings and neuronal synapses, originating in Loewi’s discovery, and with the extension that the work of my colleagues has been able to give to it, can claim one practical result, in the specific, though alas only short, alleviation of the condition of myasthenia gravis, by eserine and its synthetic analogues.
Otto Loewi -
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
Alex Smith -
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
Barack Obama