You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMAIf somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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