01c. 1961 ADThe Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.Barack Obama / quote ↗
02c. 1961 ADIn America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.Barack Obama / quote ↗
03c. 1961 ADI see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!Barack Obama / quote ↗
04c. 1961 ADWe, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.Barack Obama / quote ↗
05c. 1961 ADThe thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.Barack Obama / quote ↗
06c. 1961 ADFixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.Barack Obama / quote ↗
07c. 1961 ADIt was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.Barack Obama / quote ↗
08c. 1961 ADWe need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.Barack Obama / quote ↗
09c. 1961 ADMillions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.Barack Obama / quote ↗
10c. 1961 ADIt 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.Barack Obama / quote ↗
11c. 1961 ADWhen we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.Barack Obama / quote ↗
12c. 1961 ADWhile I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.Barack Obama / quote ↗
13c. 1961 ADI know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.Barack Obama / quote ↗
14c. 1961 ADWith patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.Barack Obama / quote ↗
15c. 1961 ADA good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'Barack Obama / quote ↗
16c. 1961 ADI miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.Barack Obama / quote ↗
17c. 1961 ADAmerica is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.Barack Obama / quote ↗
18c. 1961 ADMichelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.Barack Obama / quote ↗
19c. 1961 ADFood Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis recklessness on Wall Street did.Barack Obama / quote ↗
20c. 1961 ADWe 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.Barack Obama / quote ↗
21c. 1961 ADIt was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.Barack Obama / quote ↗
22c. 1961 ADIt's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.Barack Obama / quote ↗
23c. 1961 ADChange will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.Barack Obama / quote ↗
24c. 1961 ADThe future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.Barack Obama / quote ↗
