Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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More Barack Obama Quotes
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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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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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.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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.
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A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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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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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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 way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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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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