Barack Obama Quotes

If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.

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• For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Taken
  • Secret
  • Information

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Goals
  • Individual
  • Exception

• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Think
  • Future
  • Twitter

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reality

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Age
  • Difficult
  • Aging

• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • War
  • History
  • Legacy

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Music
  • Year
  • Broadway

• I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Inspiration
  • Leader

• It tossed and tossed,- A little brig I knew,- O’ertook by blast, It spun and spun, And groped delirious, for morn.It slipped and slipped, As one that drunken stepped; Its white foot tripped, Then dropped from sight.Ah, brig, good-night To crew and you; The ocean’s heart too smooth, too blue, To break for you.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Night

• The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

  

  Frederick Pollock
  • Pretty

• If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false.

  

  Barack Obama
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