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Barack Obama Quotes | Global Oneness . Archive 1009 II Barack Obama Quotes A Wisdom Archive on Barack Obama Quotes Barack Obama Quotes A selection of quotes by Barack Obama. And I'sve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about educatio n, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We'sve got to turn off the TV set, we'sve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody i n the world. Barack Obama Barack Obama Quotes Our goal is to have a country that'ss not divided by race.Barack Obama Quotes, B arack Obama, Famous Qoutes Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.Bara ck Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain d ecided to invade Iraq.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Change I feel good when I'sm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society , and those core issues to me are what'ss happening to poor folks in this societ y.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of ti me trying to be excellent.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Time In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.Barac k Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Love, Change There is not a liberal America and a conservative America â there is the United Stat es of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino Ameri ca and Asian America â there'ss the United States of America.Barack Obama Quotes, Ba rack Obama, Famous Qoutes Michelle and I are here only because we were given a chance at an education. I w ill not settle for an America where some kids don'st have that chance.Barack Oba ma Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Education We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, World, Co urage
The climate changes we are experiencing are already causing us harm. But in the end, it will not be us who deal with its most devastating effects. It will be ou r children, and our grandchildren.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qout es, Change The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don'st wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, y ou will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, World Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. ... Because it'ss only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.Barack O bama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Life People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being c alled to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-andburn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Politics We can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can w e consume the world'ss resources without regard to effect. For the world has cha nged, and we must change with it.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoute s, Change, Suffering The U.S. military has performed valiantly and brilliantly in Iraq. Our troops ha ve done all that we have asked them to do and more. But no amount of American so ldiers can solve the political differences at the heart of somebody else'ss civi l war, nor settle the grievances in the hearts of the combatants.Barack Obama Qu otes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Heart It is time for us to fundamentally change our policy. It is time to give Iraqis their country back. And it is time to refocus America'ss efforts on the challeng es we face at home and the wider struggle against terror yet to be won.Barack Ob ama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Change, Effort Our public education system is the key to opportunity for millions of children a nd families. It needs to be the best in the world. Of particular concern is the growing achievement gap between middle and low-income students, which has contin ued to expand despite some overall national achievement gains.Barack Obama Quote s, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Children, World Today, we'sre seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably m ild winters or hot summers. It'ss about the chain of natural catastrophes and de vastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around th e world - the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Change, World All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, incr easingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. No t only is it real, it'ss here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningl y new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.Barack Obama Quotes, Bara ck Obama, Famous Qoutes, Anger, World And I'sve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about educatio n, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We'sve got to turn off the TV set, we'sve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive
activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody i n the world.Barack Obama Quotes, Barack Obama, Famous Qoutes, Children, World * Encyclopedia II - 2004 Democratic National Convention - Keynote address Illinois state Senator Barack Obama delivered the convention's keynote address, becoming the third African American to do so since Barbara Jordan in 1976. Obama , a candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, was enthusiastically r eceived by the delegates, who waved blue-and-white campaign signs and chanted hi s name. The excitement of his reception rivaled that of President Clinton's entr ance the night before. As the keynote speaker, Obama set the tone for the party platform. His speech, proclaiming the unnecessary and artifi ... Read more here: » 2004 Democratic National Convention: Encyclopedia II - 2004 Demo cratic National Convention - Keynote address * Encyclopedia II - Maxine Waters - Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Waters attended Los Angeles State College (now Cali fornia State University, Los Angeles). Prior to her entry into politics, she was a teacher and a volunteer coordinator in the Head Start program. Waters entered the California State Assembly in 1976. Upon the retirement of Augustus F. Hawki ns in 1990, Waters was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 29th Congressional District. (The district was renumbered the 35th District in 1992 after California gained 7 additional seat ... Read more here: » Maxine Waters: Encyclopedia II - Maxine Waters - Biography » Home » P » Home »