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- United States senator from Illinois
- Married to Michelle Obama
- Graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School
- Religion: Christian
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Barack Obama Quotes is a site dedicated to notable quotations by President Barack Obama.
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Barack Obama Quotes
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- "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." (June 19, 2003)
- "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.'" (May 31, 2004)
- "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." (July 27, 2004)
- "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America." (July 27, 2004)
- "I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it." (February 10, 2007)
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- "I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator."
- "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."
- "My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."
- "Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
- "Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement."
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- "Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career."
- "With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability."
- "I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse."
- "My first job is to say thank you to those who voted me. Those who didn't, I'm going to get your vote next time."
- "We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible."
- "We 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 Quotes Questions
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Does Barack Obama really deserve the Novel Prize for peace? 12 AnswersThere have been several posts on this, I even posted one myself. My direct answer to your question would be no he does not deserve it. This quick answer has n... read more
Your opinion about the news outsourcing projects to India by Barack Obama. 5 AnswersThis seems to fly in the face of some of his other statements from just last week. If he's consistent in using taxes as a tool as he's stated in order to get b... read more
Six degrees of separation: Brian san to Barack Obama 11 AnswersWell no one's tried the Kevin Pollack route yet, so I figure I better step up! And who can resist threading it all through Kevin Bacon?? I can't! 1. brian san ... read more
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