Barack Obama Quotes — Page 24

Politician

Grateful

“It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.”

Children Nice Issues

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Determined

“We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.”

Running Law Enforcement

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Hopeful

“It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!”

Kings Land Moon

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Hopeful

“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”

Children Blood Sweat

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Creative

“it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President”

Important Talking President

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Love

“My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.”

Looks Parent Son

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Love

“I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.”

Inspirational Brother Cousin

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Inspired

“What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return”

Use Fuel Fossils

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Funny

“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

Country Home Horse

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Thoughtful

“All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.”

People Children Heart

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Barack Obama

Politician

“On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”

Mother New Year Easter

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Wise

“Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”

People Abortion Muslim Faith

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