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Barack Obama

I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
BARACK OBAMA

Country Engineer Lawyer
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Person Seek Time Wait
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Climate Constitution One Liner Security Serious
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Character Empathy One Liner Quality World
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
BARACK OBAMA

Expectation Father Humour Live Man Mistake Try
One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
BARACK OBAMA

Children Education Investment Knowledge Quality
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Commitment Extraordinary Ordinary People
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMA

Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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Action Business Hustle Imperfection Success
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
BARACK OBAMA

Democracy Entity Foreign Government Ignorance Speak
I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
BARACK OBAMA

Constituation Law Nation Principle Thinking
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Bedroom Crying Gratitude Hustle Motivational Shoes
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Born Different Man Mistake Wealth Young
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
BARACK OBAMA

Path Progress Right Success Victory Walk
You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
BARACK OBAMA

Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World

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