Barack Obama Quotes
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
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I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.
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Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
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The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.
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Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
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I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.
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She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
