Barack Obama Quotes — Page 27

Barack Obama

Politician

Lonely

“I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.”

People Passing By Central Park

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Barack Obama

Politician

Hopeful

“We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.”

People Believe Pro Life

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Love

“Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.”

Diversity Mind Blowing

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Angry

“We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.”

Earth Global Warming

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Thoughtful

“We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.”

Thinking Children Kids

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Hopeful

“The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.”

Heart Opportunity Charity

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Confident

“I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.”

Jobs White Money

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Courageous

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

Strong Powerful Military

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Courageous

“Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.”

Men Children Patriotic

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Angry

“If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.”

Mean Kids Cutting

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Courageous

“We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.”

Cutting Education Senior

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Courageous

“There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.”

War Stars Patriotic

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