Barack Obama — Courageous Quotes

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Barack Obama Quotes

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Barack Obama

Politician

Courageous

“And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.”

Kids Struggle Couple

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Barack Obama

Politician

Courageous

“I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.”

Running Wall Cat

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Courageous

“Iran's nuclear program . . . there was going to be a time limit . . .”

Limits Iran Nuclear

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Courageous

“We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.”

Phases Diplomatic

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Courageous

“Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever.”

Forever Goes On

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Courageous

“The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.”

Real Israel Iran

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Courageous

“Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's what Nixon did with Mao. I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying we're going to wipe you off the planet.”

Mean Country Strong

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Courageous

“We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.”

Years Three Engagement

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Courageous

“We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.”

Want Said Diplomacy

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Courageous

“Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.”

President Iran Unlimited

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Courageous

“I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.”

Thinking Taken Couple

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Courageous

“If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.”

Doe United States Iran

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