Quotes by Barack Obama
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Obama, Barack
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
Obama, Barack
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Obama, Barack
To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.
Obama, Barack
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Obama, Barack
The 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.
Obama, Barack
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Obama, Barack
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Obama, Barack
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Obama, Barack
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.
Obama, Barack
I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy (and was the only U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois to do so). That opposition hasn't changed.
Obama, Barack
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Obama, Barack
I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.
Obama, Barack
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Obama, Barack
A 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.'
Obama, Barack
I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Obama, Barack