As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
BARACK OBAMAChange 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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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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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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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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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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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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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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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