Barack Obama Quotes
I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.
Quotes to Explore
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I can always go back to education.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.
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I still don't believe I won the U.S. Open. It's so far-fetched for me.
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Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
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The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.
