One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
BARACK OBAMAAs we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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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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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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