Barack Obama Quotes

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to argue that some Americans are more real than others.
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As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.
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The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have.
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The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.