Barack Obama Quotes

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

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• I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Strong
  • Living

• I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Man
  • See

• Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Profit
  • Industries

• When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Painful

• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Being
  • Part
  • Aqua

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Different
  • Together
  • City

• I think music sharing of any kind is great.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Great
  • Music
  • Sharing

• Film has always been where my heart is.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Heart
  • Film
  • Where

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• Lying can never save us from another lie.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Lying
  • Lie
  • Save

• It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Funny

• People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Help
  • Future

• You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • You
  • Confident
  • Beast

• I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Different
  • Family

• Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Good
  • Words
  • Dog

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Soul
  • Sweet
  • Wind

• That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Fashion
  • Present
  • Beginning

• If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Presidential