Barack Obama Quotes

The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Physics

• I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Window

• There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Community
  • Dance

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Power
  • Political
  • Opinion

• There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Men
  • Help

• For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Years

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Time
  • School
  • Win

• Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Last
  • November
  • Miles

• If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Strong
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
  • Candidate
  • Virtually

• Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Control
  • Government

• I don't want to be a pretty boy.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Boy

• Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • Woman
  • Mathematician
  • Swear

• Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Giving
  • Confidence

• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Serious
  • Capitalism
  • Toward

• I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Home
  • Food

• The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Path