Barack Obama Quotes

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

Barack Obama

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• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Act

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Power
  • Guys
  • Fine

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Why
  • Government

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Death
  • Peace

• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Kind
  • More

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

  

  Bill Delahunt

• I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

  

  Chris Paul
  • People
  • Small
  • Brother

• So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • People
  • Age
  • Journey

• The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Law
  • Ambition
  • Agency

• Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Brother
  • Gay