Barack Obama Quotes
What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I wanna live.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
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It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
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Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
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The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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I know I'm going to make mistakes, but you try to minimize them. Don't make the same ones twice.
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True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
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History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.
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What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.
