Barack Obama Quotes

People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.

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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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They hate whom they fear.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
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People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.