I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
BARACK OBAMAA nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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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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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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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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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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