Barack Obama Quotes
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.
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She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
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With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
