Barack Obama Quotes
If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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If you're the person whose problems were solved when you were born, your job is to try and help the people who aren't in that situation. It's very easy to say you're tired of political discussion when all of your problems are solved. I keep trying to think of it that way.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.
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I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
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If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.
